The Chinese government’s repression of Southern Mongolia didn’t begin yesterday. It began in 1947, the moment the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) created what they called the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They claimed it was a form of autonomy for us — the Southern Mongolian people — but what followed was not freedom. It was slow, planned erasure.

We were promised self-governance, protection of our language, culture, and identity. Instead, our traditional structures were dismantled. Our herders were moved. Our lands were taken. And our language — our mother tongue — was treated as a threat.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), things got worse. Southern Mongolians were targeted, arrested, tortured, and killed. Entire communities were accused of being “separatists.” The regime tried to destroy our history by labeling us enemies for simply being who we are. Historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of us were persecuted during that time.

Today, the repression hasn’t stopped — it’s just changed its form.

Our language is banned from schools. Our children are forced to learn in Mandarin. Our script — the vertical Mongolian script — is disappearing. Our herders are evicted, and our lands are turned into mines and industrial zones. Our activists are jailed, watched, silenced. And the world says almost nothing.

We, the people of Southern Mongolia, are not asking for special treatment. We are demanding the basic right to exist — with our language, our land, and our identity intact. This isn’t just about history. It’s happening now.

And we will not be silent.