g taken as the killer’s concubine (the fate of Andromache in myth and scores of nameless women in reality). These women are being punished for the crime of having married the wrong person.
Well – state-sanctioned rape is what it is.
It's not just Xinjiang and Tibet: it looks like Inner Mongolia is next in line for the cultural genocide treatment, in Xi's vision of a monocultural Han Chinese nation:
China is facing growing protests in its Mongolian region after it was accused of attempting “cultural genocide” by ordering schools to dump the native language and teach in Chinese.
Videos surfaced on Sunday of demonstrations involving hundreds of people, including school pupils, in Inner Mongolia, with protesters shouting in their own language: “Our mother tongue is Mongolian. Until death, we are Mongolian.”
The protests come after reports that hundreds of teachers in the cities of Tongliao and Ulaanhad were called into “urgent, secret meetings” to take orders from Beijing to switch curriculums to Mandarin under a state-supported “bilingual education programme”.
According to the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre (SMHRIC), a New York-based group, the new policy was issued verbally rather than in writing. It requires Chinese to be taught from the first year of primary school, and demands Chinese replaces Mongolian as the language of instruction for politics and history. Other subjects will be converted as the policy progresses, it says.
Until now, students took lessons in their native language, then began to study Chinese from eight years old. […]
The shift in the education policy appears to be the latest attempt by Beijing to rein in the country’s largest ethnic minorities, which have their own languages and distinct cultural traditions.
With unrest among Tibetans and the Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang, there are rising calls from Beijing that the country’s ethnic populations should learn Chinese to build a common national identity.
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