 About Jaranbayar Soyolt Prepared by Horidoimergen, http://www.smhric.org, 03/25/2008
Jaranbayariin Soyolt, a Southern (Inner) Mongolian dissident in exile is a citizen of Mongolia. He is married with three children.
Jaranbayariin Soyolt, a long-term dissident, human rights activist and one of the founding members of several exile groups based in Mongolia, was born in central Southern Mongolia’s Shiliin-gol League. He was one of the leaders of the 1981 Mongolian Student Movement, a mass protest by ethnic Mongolian students and intellectuals against the Chinese Central Government’s plan for migrating 600,000 Hans into Southern Mongolia without any consultation with local Mongols.
In 1992, he immigrated to an independent country of Mongolia and continued his human rights activities, criticizing the Chinese Government’s ethnic policy and defending the human rights of the Mongols in China. Later he was granted political asylum in Mongolia, and in1997 he was granted citizenship of Mongolia under the Naturalization Act of Mongolia. In 1993, Soyolt attended the World Mongolian Alliance First Congress in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and gave a speech publicly criticizing China’s gross human rights violations in Southern Mongolia and called the Chinese ethnic policy as “a policy of ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide”.
China’s State Security internal document entitled “Overview of Inner Mongolian Separatist Organizations Abroad” ( available at SMHRIC website at: http://www.smhric.org/news_39.htm ) listed him as the founder and leader of the Ulaanbaatar Branch of the Inner Mongolian People’s Party, an exiled group advocating the independence of Southern Mongolia, and the Secretary General of the “Association of the World Mongolian Revitalization Movement” whose constitution, according to the document, is “to unite with Tibetan and Uyghur youth and ally with Han-Chinese democratic parties and individuals to create a multi-lateral coalition to overthrow the regime of the communist party and to achieve the unification of the Mongol nationality, ultimately to found the ‘Pacific Eastern Great Mongol Empire’ where the sun never sets.” |