Although under the law of state of emergency it does not state the need to close down other parties’s communication, power, water supply, and traffic to the party building. The state media is still broadcasting one sided, unbalanced review of the events, and trying to make believe the events into something like riot by youngsters whose sole reason was to destroy and steal.
Right now the Democratic party’s power, water, communication lines have been cut, and road traffic has been closed down.
The Democratic party has sent official letter to the mayor of the city of ulaanbaatar Mr Bilegt, and is waiting for their reply.
State of emergency
This is the first state of emergency in the history of Mongolia. Right now the centre of Ulaanbaatar has been sealed off by 13 heavy armoured-vehicles, and almost half a thousand officers and policemen. No traffic is allowed in and out of the zone except all the government force that are in use right now such as the state police, the army, the firedepartment, the ambulance etc.
To many residents including me, the scene looks more like a ‘State of War’ than ‘State of Emergency’ Many of us feel as if we are living in the book 1984 by Goerge Orwell.
Outburst of public anger
The event was truly the outburst of anger of the public towards the communist party MPRP. Their activities, corruption, stealing and robbing of our tax money etc led to the events that took place on 1st of july.
The younger generation of the MPRP belongs to an organisation called Union of Mongolia’s Socialist Democratic Youth. By their very hands all the thefts of the Savings Bank (State owned bank) and non-banking organisations’ (who were formed in Mongolia with unrealistic high interest on savings, and quickly amassed the public money, who were tricked by the hight interest rate on their savings) have been carried out. The MPRP backs the youth organisation and made them believe that their crime will not be revealed as long as they have the MPRP’s backing.
The party used the money amassed by their youth to buy the election of 2008. This is due to the recently discovered mineral deposits in Mongolia. This new parliament will decide what to do with their huge natural resources. MPRP is eager to win enough seats in the parliament to be the majority and pass laws that will enable them to get more than fair share of the resources without sharing with the public of Mongolia without any difficulty from the opposition.
The opposition’s policy is to share natural resource with the public and develop businesses among public, hence starting major industrialisation in Mongolia to create jobs and fight poverty.
The election fraud
The public is disclosing evidence of election fraud by the MPRP.
For example, thousands of people are telling each other that they received money given out by the MPRP. It was about 10 to 20 dollars for each voters, and allegedly the party given out 10 million dollars in total. The money was given to the public in 10 to 20 dollars and to the election committee and its branches in 1000 to 2000 dollars. The public assume the large sums of money came from the money that they stole from the Savings Bank, and the non-banking organisations mentioned earlier. The party stole public money to buy their votes.
The President as well as the Prime minister and the majority of both the parliament and the cabinet are the members of MPRP. Although UN’s general secretary Pan Gi Mun advised party leaders to resolve the situation in peaceful ways, it is hard to see how the minority opposition force within the parliament and the cabinet can voice the publics wish and fight for their freedom. The opposition party’s building has been cut off from all the utilities especially any available communication lines. There is no level playground for party leaders to negotiate a fair resolution, or a resolution that is in favour of the public of Mongolia. A resolution that gives them their freedom that was once given to the people by the democratic party in 1990. These measurements by the MPRP and the President is seen as a major step back in Mongolia’s flourishing democracy since 1990. The people are concerned whether they are being fed the balanced and true information by the state media, which is the only media source that has the right to operate. People fear the state media is already in command of the MPRP and their supporters. It is being used to brainwash the people all around the countryside. The people in city of ulaanbaatar have access to the internet and still have some freedom of access to other media, such as people’s blogs and internet news agencies.
Remember Tian Min square
5 people are killed, the state media broadcasts. But we’re not sure, since the only media that is operational is the state media. The 300 are injured, and the information regarding their whereabouts are unknown, such as which hospital and how severe the injuries are. 700 are detained and ofcourse still unknown where they were detained and their condition right now. Those people are the general public and the youth who were nearby the protest. There are my friends and my fellow Mongolians who fought for the whole publics interest. But unfortunately now they could be being persecuted by the police and the ruling party. The state media stopped broadcasting information relating to the incident and instead broadcasting aerobic lessons, cartoons, soap operas, documentaries etc. While thousands of people’s lives are in jeopardy and Mongolia’s future hangs on a blade, we are being forced to watch cartoons and aerobic lessons. We have no ears and eyes as to the condition of our country. I fear that we might be soon living in the world depicted in the book 1984.
Please spread the news. State media has been bending the truth and brainwashing the public all over the country as there is no other working media source right now. No FM stations, No other tv networks, No free press. Thank you for your support.
By Idersaikhan Byambaa 2008/07/02 12:30 pm, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Political Repression back in Mongolia
Political repression back in Mongolia after 18 years of only successful democracy in central Asia, from the Japanese sea to Eastern Europe.
Here is a 23 year old Mongolian student reporting from the centre of action in Ulaanbaatar. I have studied in England for 4 years from 2001. Using my English abilities I thought it was necessary to plea for international attention and support for the free people of Mongolia. Mongolia have joined UN in 1961, and it’s people have the freedom to choose their government, the freedom to voice their thoughts, the freedom protest against the ruling party who have been in Mongolia’s power since the 1921 people’s revolution and singlehandedly performed the Stalin's genocide in Mongolia since 1937, killing more than 30000 people and destroying historical artifacts, monasteries and religious valuables. The party’s history will reveal its true nature by itself. What’s happening right now has been accumulating in the people’s heart and mind since the parliamentary election of 2000. For 8 years the free people of Mongolia have been calmly waiting for the representatives of people who might work for the country and its people in the parliament and finally might bring prosperity. When candidates close to that criteria have emerged in this years election people were eager to see them in the parliament and represent them and voice for them. For 8 years the MPRP has been ruling the government mostly, and it only helped the country to proceed on its downfall as corrupt nation. We were included in the most corrupt nations in the world by the World Transparency agency.
On the morning of 30 June at 3 am, As The MPRP have started publishing preliminary results in just 3 hours since the counting of election votes began, they were already perpetuating news that they are winning seats in all the provinces throughout the country. This I believe was to confuse the public and to let them think that MPRP was winning from the beginning. The sad truth behind this statement was that after making that statement MPRP started influencing the counting process to make their statement a reality. This was just to prepare the public for their orchestrated illegal win. After hearing this statement all the provinces started calling Ulaanbaatar and said that they all voted for Democratic party and was wondering that what they had ordered infact was not the dish they wanted in the first place.
For example, in Darkhan province, Khongor soum had been in public attention due to it’s mineral poisoning. The ruling party had ignored the incident and did not give attention to their people when they were being poisoned in large numbers. So the residents of Khongor soum knew that they should not vote for the candidate named Khayankhyarvaa, who is a member of MPRP, and is solely responsible for the mishandling of the situation in Khongor soum and didn’t do nothing to save them. But to the surprise of many Mr Khayankhyarvaa received the most number of votes from the very soum that he ruined.
The people have in their possession many documents to prove that the election has been frauded by MPRP. Even the Leader of the party Mr Bayar had to fraud in order to get enough votes, when people actually believed that he will get elected by real voters. One competing candidate Mr Lkhagavjav says that 25% of all his votes were fake and that he has documents to prove this fraud.
Competing candidates presented documents to support their case, and voters were out in the street, to prove in person that they didn’t vote for MPRP.
The protest began at 1pm 1st of July, and soon became an outrage of anger and hatred towards MPRP, which has been accumulating for 8 years since the election of 2000. The protesters went on to express their anger, their state of poor life, and their brave belief in their free, democratic future. They voted for who they want. But some people have influence that decision by public in favour of them. This has robbed the people of their freedom to choose their representative in the parliament. Their only way to rule the nation and only once in four years, has been shattered by the MPRP and their alliances throughout the government system, such as state police and supreme court.
In an effort to stop the protest the MPRP summoned police and the army with guns. The crowd didn’t want to get to this point either. They voiced their protest and waited for the MPRP officials to come out of the building and talk to them. They waited for 5 hours and began to destroy the building. Claiming that the building belongs to state and that state is made up of the people who were protesting. They robbed the party of their building given by themselves in return. When the party had robbed the country of its money, its rights, its freedom. To stop the protest the President stepped in to take action. He put the country in state of emergency. This was a necessary step I believe. But it was not necessary to close down all the other media agencies. No other TV stations and TV channels, no FM stations, and no any other available source of media for the public. The only TV to be broadcasted is the national TV. We all know that the TV station serves the MPRP. Since the state of emergency at 0 hours in ulaanbaatar all other TV networks were closed and MNTV stopped viewing live footage. During that space the police and the army have joined forces to disperse the crowd. Instead the killed 5 youngsters by gun, and detained hundreds more. The people who have detained are being forced to accept criminal accusations bestowed upon them. The people who were shot ran to the nearest hospital and died in the entrance hall. The eyewitnesses proved that the army and the police were chasing those people to shoot down. 4 of them were successfully shot. This footage was to be documented by other TV stations and journalists. Now the people have no real footage, no solid evidence of what really happened that night. The only working TV was instead showing Mr Bayar and his followers visiting the protest site and visiting their building. He ordered the police to find who was responsible for the protest and burning of their building. Then he went off to hospital somewhere in ulaanbaatar and met police workers who were injured during the clash. While the protesters who were shot dead are still in the hospital, rotting away, unable to reach even the morgue. The only TV is now reporting the number of dead are 4, and later 3. They didn’t mention the cause of death too. Mr Bayar ignored this fact, and we still don’t know who was shot dead and whether their families are informed. Democratic party leader used his only chance to talk on the TV to express deep regret for the dead and the detained who were being forced to accept false accusations in the jail.
As I watch the TV right now, the MPRP is now talking about their destroyed building and their estimated value for the loss of their building. The people don’t understand how could that be more valuable than the people who lost their lives. The members of MPRP is asking for repayment of their loss. The people want to ask for repayment of their lost boys too, but has no TV to voice their feelings.
The MNTV is broadcasting one sided analysis trying to convince public that the people who protested were not part of the general public and were drunk criminals.
We all understand the situation in Zimbabwe, and feel deeply for the people of Zimbabwe. Today in this world, political repression should have no place to survive. If we act against these atrocities we can stop it, and bring freedom to millions of people around the world. Human right is deeply scarred in Mongolia today. Our votes were manipulated and we don’t even have the right to protest against the wrong candidates, that we didn’t vote for. Please bring our situation to international attention and let them know that we have human rights. Please help us to win our rights back.
This is Idersaikhan Byambaa, 23 years old Mongolian student, who wanted to voice our people, and our new generations’ view to the world. Please voice this pledge to the world. We want UN ‘s support for winning our rights back. We want international organisations to investigate into this matter and report the truth to the world. Thank you for your attention, and reading this far.
Here is a 23 year old Mongolian student reporting from the centre of action in Ulaanbaatar. I have studied in England for 4 years from 2001. Using my English abilities I thought it was necessary to plea for international attention and support for the free people of Mongolia. Mongolia have joined UN in 1961, and it’s people have the freedom to choose their government, the freedom to voice their thoughts, the freedom protest against the ruling party who have been in Mongolia’s power since the 1921 people’s revolution and singlehandedly performed the Stalin's genocide in Mongolia since 1937, killing more than 30000 people and destroying historical artifacts, monasteries and religious valuables. The party’s history will reveal its true nature by itself. What’s happening right now has been accumulating in the people’s heart and mind since the parliamentary election of 2000. For 8 years the free people of Mongolia have been calmly waiting for the representatives of people who might work for the country and its people in the parliament and finally might bring prosperity. When candidates close to that criteria have emerged in this years election people were eager to see them in the parliament and represent them and voice for them. For 8 years the MPRP has been ruling the government mostly, and it only helped the country to proceed on its downfall as corrupt nation. We were included in the most corrupt nations in the world by the World Transparency agency.
On the morning of 30 June at 3 am, As The MPRP have started publishing preliminary results in just 3 hours since the counting of election votes began, they were already perpetuating news that they are winning seats in all the provinces throughout the country. This I believe was to confuse the public and to let them think that MPRP was winning from the beginning. The sad truth behind this statement was that after making that statement MPRP started influencing the counting process to make their statement a reality. This was just to prepare the public for their orchestrated illegal win. After hearing this statement all the provinces started calling Ulaanbaatar and said that they all voted for Democratic party and was wondering that what they had ordered infact was not the dish they wanted in the first place.
For example, in Darkhan province, Khongor soum had been in public attention due to it’s mineral poisoning. The ruling party had ignored the incident and did not give attention to their people when they were being poisoned in large numbers. So the residents of Khongor soum knew that they should not vote for the candidate named Khayankhyarvaa, who is a member of MPRP, and is solely responsible for the mishandling of the situation in Khongor soum and didn’t do nothing to save them. But to the surprise of many Mr Khayankhyarvaa received the most number of votes from the very soum that he ruined.
The people have in their possession many documents to prove that the election has been frauded by MPRP. Even the Leader of the party Mr Bayar had to fraud in order to get enough votes, when people actually believed that he will get elected by real voters. One competing candidate Mr Lkhagavjav says that 25% of all his votes were fake and that he has documents to prove this fraud.
Competing candidates presented documents to support their case, and voters were out in the street, to prove in person that they didn’t vote for MPRP.
The protest began at 1pm 1st of July, and soon became an outrage of anger and hatred towards MPRP, which has been accumulating for 8 years since the election of 2000. The protesters went on to express their anger, their state of poor life, and their brave belief in their free, democratic future. They voted for who they want. But some people have influence that decision by public in favour of them. This has robbed the people of their freedom to choose their representative in the parliament. Their only way to rule the nation and only once in four years, has been shattered by the MPRP and their alliances throughout the government system, such as state police and supreme court.
In an effort to stop the protest the MPRP summoned police and the army with guns. The crowd didn’t want to get to this point either. They voiced their protest and waited for the MPRP officials to come out of the building and talk to them. They waited for 5 hours and began to destroy the building. Claiming that the building belongs to state and that state is made up of the people who were protesting. They robbed the party of their building given by themselves in return. When the party had robbed the country of its money, its rights, its freedom. To stop the protest the President stepped in to take action. He put the country in state of emergency. This was a necessary step I believe. But it was not necessary to close down all the other media agencies. No other TV stations and TV channels, no FM stations, and no any other available source of media for the public. The only TV to be broadcasted is the national TV. We all know that the TV station serves the MPRP. Since the state of emergency at 0 hours in ulaanbaatar all other TV networks were closed and MNTV stopped viewing live footage. During that space the police and the army have joined forces to disperse the crowd. Instead the killed 5 youngsters by gun, and detained hundreds more. The people who have detained are being forced to accept criminal accusations bestowed upon them. The people who were shot ran to the nearest hospital and died in the entrance hall. The eyewitnesses proved that the army and the police were chasing those people to shoot down. 4 of them were successfully shot. This footage was to be documented by other TV stations and journalists. Now the people have no real footage, no solid evidence of what really happened that night. The only working TV was instead showing Mr Bayar and his followers visiting the protest site and visiting their building. He ordered the police to find who was responsible for the protest and burning of their building. Then he went off to hospital somewhere in ulaanbaatar and met police workers who were injured during the clash. While the protesters who were shot dead are still in the hospital, rotting away, unable to reach even the morgue. The only TV is now reporting the number of dead are 4, and later 3. They didn’t mention the cause of death too. Mr Bayar ignored this fact, and we still don’t know who was shot dead and whether their families are informed. Democratic party leader used his only chance to talk on the TV to express deep regret for the dead and the detained who were being forced to accept false accusations in the jail.
As I watch the TV right now, the MPRP is now talking about their destroyed building and their estimated value for the loss of their building. The people don’t understand how could that be more valuable than the people who lost their lives. The members of MPRP is asking for repayment of their loss. The people want to ask for repayment of their lost boys too, but has no TV to voice their feelings.
The MNTV is broadcasting one sided analysis trying to convince public that the people who protested were not part of the general public and were drunk criminals.
We all understand the situation in Zimbabwe, and feel deeply for the people of Zimbabwe. Today in this world, political repression should have no place to survive. If we act against these atrocities we can stop it, and bring freedom to millions of people around the world. Human right is deeply scarred in Mongolia today. Our votes were manipulated and we don’t even have the right to protest against the wrong candidates, that we didn’t vote for. Please bring our situation to international attention and let them know that we have human rights. Please help us to win our rights back.
This is Idersaikhan Byambaa, 23 years old Mongolian student, who wanted to voice our people, and our new generations’ view to the world. Please voice this pledge to the world. We want UN ‘s support for winning our rights back. We want international organisations to investigate into this matter and report the truth to the world. Thank you for your attention, and reading this far.
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