{"id":66118,"date":"2016-08-11T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=66118 "},"modified":"2016-08-11T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:59:00","slug":"66118-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=66118","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Police Detain Eight Ethnic Mongolians Amid Dispute Over Grassland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ethnic Mongolian herders from Ubuurbarag village hold up a banner at a protest in Inner Mongolia’s eastern Shin-Barag Left Banner, Aug. 10, 2016.<\/span><\/p>

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Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained eight people in an eviction operation targeting a group of ethnic Mongolian herders and driving them from their summer pastures, activists and local residents said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>

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Ethnic Mongolian herders in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday penned an open letter to the the regional government amid a bitter land dispute that has sparked violent clashes with the authorities in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>

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Herders from Ubuurbarag village in Inner Mongolia’s eastern Shin-Barag Left Banner had called on the regional government to intervene to protect them after alleged attacks that left local residents injured and their livestock dead.<\/span><\/p>

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But the authorities moved on Wednesday to evict both herders and their livestock from the disputed land, which herders say they have grazed for generations under a legal contract with the government.<\/span><\/p>

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Police detained Saayanchirlat, Huubshalat, Bazhma, Baayurt, Sirgulen, Arbuden, Haajirmut and Chimurg, local residents told RFA.<\/span><\/p>

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Bazhma’s sister-in-law said she was detained at around 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>

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“I got a call from people at the scene saying that my sister-in-law had been taken away by police,” said the woman, who declined to be named.<\/span><\/p>

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“Her kid is just eight months old, and there were a few other women they took, too.”<\/span><\/p>

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“They detained eight people in total,” she said, adding: “There were more than 100 herders gathered there late last night.”<\/span><\/p>

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Another herder who didn’t give his name said local officials had admitted that the herders had the right to use the grassland.<\/span><\/p>

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“They sent around a dozen vehicles this morning to detain people, then the banner police left, leaving six or seven vehicles,” he said, adding: “Eight herders were detained.”<\/span><\/p>

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‘Ethnic cleansing’<\/span><\/p>

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The head of the government had visited the herders on Tuesday night, he said.<\/span><\/p>

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“He said that the grasslands do indeed belong to our collective farm, but that we had to move out anyway, as soon as possible.”<\/span><\/p>

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“The police told us we had 15 minutes to leave, when they came this morning.”<\/span><\/p>

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Ethnic Mongolian rights activist Xinna said eviction work is still under way.<\/span><\/p>

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“There is still chaos at the scene, because the eviction work isn’t complete,” she said.<\/span><\/p>

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The detentions prompted several dozen herders to gather outside the banner, or county-level, police department calling for the release of the detainees.<\/span><\/p>

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Security is now “very tight” in the region, Xinna said.<\/span><\/p>

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“They have been detaining people, beating them up, and confiscating their cell phones, so they can’t get any information to the outside world,” she said.<\/span><\/p>

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Xinna’s husband, veteran Mongolian rights campaigner Hada, said the evictions are part of a calculated program of ethnic cleansing in the region.<\/span><\/p>

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“The aim of the Han Chinese is very clear,” Hada told RFA. “They want to eradicate the Mongolian nomadic way of life.”<\/span><\/p>

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“They’re not explicit about this, but that’s what they want.”<\/span><\/p>

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The eviction comes after more than 40 head of sheep were killed by unidentified occupiers of the land, using motor vehicles, local residents told RFA earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>

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But an official from the local government said the sheep were killed because they strayed onto the highway.<\/span><\/p>

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Ethnic Mongolians, who make up almost 20 percent of Inner Mongolia’s population of 23 million, increasingly complain of widespread environmental destruction and unfair development policies in the region.<\/span><\/p>

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Clashes between Chinese state-backed mining or forestry companies and herding communities are common in the region, which borders the independent country of Mongolia.<\/span><\/p>

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