To gather and distribute information concerning Southern (Inner) Mongolian human rights situation and general human rights issues;To promote and protect ethnic Mongolians’ all kind of rights such as basic human rights, indigenous rights, minority rights, civil rights, and political rights in Southern Mongolia;To encourage human rights and democracy grassroots movements in Southern Mongolia;To promote human rights and democracy education in Southern Mongolia;To improve the international community’s understanding of deteriorating human rights situations, worsening ethnic, cultural and environmental problems in Southern Mongolia;Ultimately, to establish a democratic political system in Southern Mongolia.Chinese authorities mount anti-terrorism drill for "Peaceful and Stable Inner Mongolia"...As the Chinese National Day approached on October 1, the Chinese authorities carried out a series of anti-terrorism drills and civilian disarmament campaigns in response to the escalating tensions between Mongolians and Chinese over mining, environmental destruction and land expropriation in Southern (Inner) Mongolia. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau official website reported an anti-terrorism drill code-named “2013 – Mission Stability” was carried out in eastern Southern Mongolia’s Tongliao Municipality on September 28, 2013. Formerly known as “Jirim League” (“league” is a traditional Mongolian administrative unit that consists of several county level administrative units called “Banner”), Tongliao Municipality is home to about 1.5 million Mongolians, the largest concentration of Mongolians among all the leagues in Southern Mongolia. “In order to effectively respond to the complicated and volatile social stability situation, and to strictly implement the Autonomous Region’s ‘8337 Development Guidelines’”, more than 15 units including the Tongliao Municipality Public Security Bureau ...<details>...Herders defending their grazing lands face long jail sentences...  The Chinese authorities are preparing to hand down long prison terms, possibly up to 7 years, to six Mongolian herders on the trumped-up charges of “sabotaging production and management” and “intentionally destroying public or private properties”. The six herders are Mr.Tulguur, Mr.Tugusbayar, Mr.Jargalt, Mr.Nasandalai, Mr.Munkhbayar and Mr.Ulaanbar, from Bayannuur Gachaa (gachaa consists of several villages) of Shinsume Sum (sum is equivalent to township) in eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Ongniud Banner (“weng niu te qi” in Chinese). They were taken away by police after a clash with Chinese workers from a state-run forestry 
company named “Shuang He forestry” that illegally occupied their grazing 
land. Following more than 3 weeks of detention and interrogation, they were 
formally arrested on June 24, 2013 for alleged involvement in “sabotaging 
production and management”. On September 13, 2013, the Ongniud Banner Public 
Security Bureau transferred the