"The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party During the Cultural Revolution—Orchestrated by Deng Xiaoping"

> The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party refers to a series of events spanning from 1966 to 1976 (during the Cultural Revolution), in which hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mongolians were purged by the Chinese Communist Party [1].

> With the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, central government intervention in Inner Mongolia intensified significantly. On July 12, Deng Xiaoping summoned Ulanhu—then Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region [3]—and launched a scathing attack against him, accusing him of being an "ethnic separatist plotting the unification of Inner and Outer Mongolia" and of attempting to "become a modern-day prince and establish an independent kingdom." These accusations led to Ulanhu's downfall. Throughout Inner Mongolia, ethnic Mongolians labeled as "Inner People's Party elements" were subjected to severe repression.

> According to Yang Haiying, a native of Southern Mongolia (the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Han Chinese perpetrators inflicted horrific acts of sexual violence, torture, and slaughter upon ethnic Mongolians. These atrocities included inserting red-hot iron rods into victims' anuses, driving iron nails into their heads, stripping Mongolian women of their trousers to repeatedly saw at their genitals with ropes, and—in the case of pregnant women—reaching into the womb to forcibly rip the fetus out [2].