Ethnic Tensions Simmer on Inner Mongolian Plains – Ben Blanchard

From Reuters:
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…Feng, a Chinese citizen, is also an ethnic Mongolian, a people who eight centuries ago were united by Genghis Khan and forged an empire that stretched from Beijing to Poland…

In November, police raided Dulaan’s shop and several others in Hohhot and seized Mongolian language books and CDs, under the pretext, she says, of cracking down on piracy and illegally imported foreign publications.

Mongolian activists complain that the plight of their people is little known in the outside world, unlike that of the Tibetans or the Muslim Uighurs in China’s far west.
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