{"id":47187,"date":"2015-05-19T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47187 "},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:11:00","slug":"47187-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47187","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Mongolian Herders, Livestock Pursued by Jeep Amid Long-Running Grassland Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rights activist Munkhbayar Chuluundorj protests in front of the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Feb. 6, 2015.<\/div>
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Ethnic Mongolian herders in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia have hit out a state-run forestry station for using jeeps to drive them away from local grazing lands.<\/div>
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Herders living near the Hanshan Forestry Station in Inner Mongolia’s Ar Horqin banner, a county-like division known as Alu Ke’erqin qi in Chinese, say their grazing lands have been gradually taken over by the forestry company since 2000.<\/div>
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On Monday, a group of herders was chased off their grazing lands by an unidentified man driving a jeep with a local official in the passenger seat, a herder and eyewitness who gave only a single name, Buhe, told RFA.<\/div>
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“There was a herd of cattle and a flock of sheep grazing there on the hillside, belonging to a few of the herders when they came,” Buhe said. “They started to chase them away, in a jeep, mind you, not on foot or on horseback.”<\/div>
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“So we herders went over there to stop them any way we could,” he said. “Initally they wanted to detain us, and eventually they didn’t.”<\/div>
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A second Hanshan herder, Hasigao, said the men in the jeep had knocked over one of the herders who was riding a motorbike, a common form of transport on the vast grasslands.<\/div>
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“They chased us for a while, and one young lad was riding fast on his motorbike, and they crashed into him,” Hasigao said. “The motorbike fell over.”<\/div>
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He said the herders didn’t recognize the driver of the jeep.<\/div>
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“But next to him was sitting an official from the Hanshan Forestry Station,” he said.<\/div>
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Buhe said the herders had been grazing livestock on the same stretch of grassland for generations, until the government designated more than 100 mu as a “National Protection Area” and banned any grazing on the land.<\/div>
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“If they government is taking it back into public ownership, then they should pay us some subsistence or compensation,” Buhe said. “But there has been nothing so far.”<\/div>
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“If we allow our cattle, sheep or horses to wander into the protection area, then they will detain us and fine us,” he said.<\/div>
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He said the herders are trying to pursue their rights, following a 2014 ruling Chinese Communist Party directive on the rule of law.<\/div>
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“We want to protect this piece of land, and protect our culture which was handed down to us from our ancestors,” Buhe said.<\/div>
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15 years of conflict<\/div>
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He said the dispute has dragged on for some 15 years.<\/div>
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“They have brought in paramilitary police with guns, and they have demolished our yurts, beaten people up and detained more than a dozen people,” Buhe said.<\/div>
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<div>Herders living near the Hanshan Forestry Station in Inner Mongolia's Ar Horqin banner, a county-like division known as Alu Ke'erqin qi in Chinese, say their grazing lands have been gradually taken over by the forestry company since 2000.<\/div><div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}