- Police have offered rewards to get ahold of those who protested in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia.
- The protests are based on dissatisfaction with a school reform which means that Chinese will take a larger place as a language of instruction in the Mongolian schools as well.
- “Studying Chinese is our duty, but it is not our mother tongue,” a Mongolian woman told SR’s China correspondent.
Many are afraid that the school reform will put an end to the status of the Mongolian language, and in the long run the whole of Mongolian culture.
– We Mongols have our own history and it has lived on thanks to the fact that we have our own language. If you hijack the language, it is as if our people will no longer exist, says Anujin, who is actually called something else and who himself has become involved in the protests.
The language issue is sensitive and the Chinese police have published long lists offering rewards for information about people who have been singled out as criminals in connection with protests against the reform. Anujin says she herself knows two people who disappeared after they were arrested.
Source: ICELAND NEWS