Inner Mongolian People's Party
The Inner Mongolian People's Party (IMPP) is a secessionist movement based in the province of Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The party was started in 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey. Citing the abuses of the Chinese government against Mongols during the Cultural Revolution, the goal of the party is to establish an independent state of Inner Mongolia; the potential for unification with the extant nation of Mongolia is beyond the current scope of party goals.
Origin of the IMPP
In the 1980s, Xi Haiming (Mongolian: Temtselt Shobshuud), Huchuntegus (Chinese: Hu Qing Te Gu Si), Wang Manglai ((Chinese: Wang Man Lai) and Hada, all students at universities in Hohhot, discussed establishment of the Inner Mongolian People's Party, a political party for Mongolians in Inner Mongolia. Later, individuals from eastern and western Inner Mongolia divided and therefore, Huchuntogus established the Ordos Association of Ethnic Culture at the Ikh Juu League (now the Ordos City); while Hada established the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance. Xi Haiming fled his country and established the IMPP in New York, in March, 1997.[1]
Given the current demographics of Inner Mongolia (Han Chinese currently constitute some 80% of the population) and the hardline approach generally taken by the PRC government towards secessionist movements, however, it is exceedingly unlikely that the party would be able to achieve its goals.
Historically, an IMPP (pinyin: Neirendang) had existed before the establishment of the PRC, but was merged with the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) after the CPC came to power in 1949. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, certain elements within the Chinese government, including notorious security chief Kang Sheng, claimed that the party had covertly revived itself as a hostile separate entity and sought to extinguish it. This resulted in 790,000 people being persecuted in the witchhunt that followed. Of these 22,900 were beaten to death and 120,000 were permanently maimed.[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ “Inner Mongolian People’s Party” and the basic facts about its key members
- ^ MacFarquhar, Roderick and Schoenhals, Michael. Mao's Last Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2006. p. 258
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