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Mongols and
Uyghurs Protest in Sweden
"Enhebatu Togochog"
2003-12-23
Northern European Branch of Southern Mongolian Human
Rights Information Center
December 11, 2003
Stockholm, Sweden
Nearly a hundred Mongols and Uyghurs from northern
European countries marked International Human Rights
Day on December 10, 2003 in front of the Chinese
Embassy to Sweden in Stockholm to demonstrate against
the Chinese government. The demonstration started at
noon and ended at 3:00 pm. Protestors held high the
dark-blue flag of the Inner Mongolian People's Party,
light-blue flag of Eastern Turkistan and banners of
"Release All Political Prisoners", "Free Inner
Mongolia", "Release Hada", "Return My Grassland", and
shouted loudly the slogans of "we want independence!"
, "we want freedom!", "China out of Inner Mongolia!",
"independence for Inner Mongolia!", "free Eastern
Turkistan!", "release Rebiya!".
The protestors condemned the Chinese government's
increasingly heavy handed pressure and threats of
detention and imprisonment against those Mongol,
Uyghur and Tibetan activists who struggle for freedom
and human rights. They also protested the Chinese
Government's ongoing policies of cultural assimilation
and Han Chinese immigration into the minority regions
of Inner Mongolia, Eastern Turkistan and Tibet.
Protestors expressed their revulsion of the Chinese
government's economic policy plundering the natural
resources and destroying the eco-system of the
minority regions. In particular, the protestors from
Inner Mongolia emphasized that the authorities have
not only deprived the basic human rights of the
Mongols but also have destroyed the Inner Mongolian
grassland eco-system which forms the basis for the
Mongols' traditional economy. Protestors distributed
leaflets condemning the Chinese government's human
rights violations, naming the Chinese Communist Party
as the largest terrorist organization in the world
because they are abusing a quarter of the world'
s population including the Mongols, Uyghurs, and
Tibetans.
At 3:00 pm, protestors presented an open letter to the
Chinese Embassy, requesting the Chinese government to
comply with the United Nations human rights treaties
and conventions and unconditionally release two
political prisoners in conscience, Mr. Hada and Ms.
Rebiya.
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