China is inflicting “cultural genocide” not only in Xinjiang and Tibet but also in Mongolia, according to a news report on Friday. In its report, The HK Post said China’s strategy of using economic tools to pressure other parties into agreeing to its terms is well known. A recent example is Mongolia.

The report said Chinese authorities recently restricted transport movements across the Mongolia-China border, citing rising COVID-19 cases in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR). As a result, Mongolia is experiencing supply chain disruptions, shortage of goods and high inflation, which has a huge impact on its exports and income.

There is a general feeling among Mongolians that COVID-19 is just a pretext for China to impose a strict border closure, the real reason is that China is unhappy that the issue of the declaration of the 10th Jetsundamba ( JD) is gaining momentum in Mongolia and also about the recent visit of the Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament, G. Zandanshatar, to India from November 29, 2021 to December 05, 2021, the report explains. The 10th JD is believed to be a child currently living in Mongolia but holding US citizenship. At a meeting of the community of Buddhist monks held on December 17, 2021 in Ulaanbaatar, it was decided that the declaration regarding the 10th DD should be made without further delay.

Khamba Nomun Han, the head of the 10th JD selection committee, would travel to India in January 2022 to discuss the matter with the Dalai Lama. China, for its part, indicated that it would only recognize the child as the 10th JD if he was not recognized by the Dalai Lama and the Mongolian government sent him to study in China. Mongolia fears that if it opposes China, the child could suffer the same fate as the 11th Panchen Lama, the HK Post reported. According to the report, the Mongolian people’s distrust of the decision to close the Chinese border is linked to their desire to control Mongolia’s Buddhist affairs.

In order to highlight the Chinese atrocities, Mongolian activists from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) have created a social media account “New World Wechat Group”. Remarkably, Chinese authorities had previously blocked all social media websites in IMAR to suppress any opposition to the promotion of Chinese language in IMAR, according to the report. Last year, on December 10, Mongolian IMAR activists staged a protest march in Ulaanbaatar, Tokyo, New York and other places to mark Human Rights Day in which slogans such as ‘Liberate Southern Mongolia’, ‘China – Stop the violation of human rights’, ‘Boycott the Beijing Olympics’ and others were brought up.

In Tokyo, activists from IMAR, Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Hong Kong and others held a protest rally against China’s human rights violation. In New York, members of the Inner Mongolia Human Rights Information Center also staged protests against the Chinese government, the HK Post reported. Meanwhile, the Japan-based South Mongolia World Congress (SMWC) has prepared a document regarding “Recording Genocide in Inner Mongolia during China’s Cultural Revolution.”

“It seems that China is inflicting ‘cultural genocide’ not only in Xinjiang and Tibet, but also in Mongolia now. Mongolian groups should unite and work with other minority groups such as Uyghurs, Tibetans to strengthen their fight against Chinese interference in the cultural domain of their respective communities,” the report added.

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