Further to a comment on an earlier post, news report of small demonstrations in rural areas after the elections. Most were small demonstrations of 30-40 people outside the polling stations. According to news.mn, minor demonstrations were held at Uvs aimag (all 3 seats to MAXH), Bulgan aimag (both seats to MAXH), Dornod (2 of 3 to MAXH) and Darkhan-Uul (2 of 3 to MAXH). News.mn does not report of any violence at these demonstrations.
News.mn has more detailed preliminary election results on their site along with the percentage of votes that went to each candidate, though it's still not a complete list.
Ts. Elbegdorj, chair of DP, was interviewed during a visit to the injured at the hospitals. He has blamed the government for not doing enough to stop the riots from escalating. He has also expressed his disappointment over the President's move to declare a state of emergency, and the government's decision to shut down all commercial / independent media.
PM Bayar's office has yet to issue any statements. The MPRP media, Unen newspaper blames Ts. Elbegdorj. B.Jargalsaikhan, O.Manlai and others for instigating the riots, and not respecting the results of a democratic election simply because they lost.
Head of Civic Movement, Enkhbat has issued a press statement, denying any involvement in organizing the riots and blaming the government and authorities for causing the riots with the unfair elections.
In other news, the police continue to arrest and detain more people over alleged involvement in the riots. It is reported that the police are identifying suspects from video footages obtained from observers.
The emergency parliamentary session was held as a closed session upon urgings from MP Bat-Uul who feared further violence in the event of an open session going wrong. 68 of 76 MP's were present, and 48 voted in favour of a closed session.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Mongolia Riots: Aftermath 3
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hu namiinhan iim l baliar zavaan bhgui yu. tegeed gantshan undesnii televizeer humuusiin , yalanguya huduu bga humuusiin tarhiig ugaagaad. nuguu tsagdaa naraa gargaad bgaa bhguii yu. temtsej bsan zaluus haana bna. ted nar yasan. nuguu buuduulsan zaluu haana bna. unen novshiin. ulaam tsaim shaaj bnaa. ingeh tusam chin bid temtsene shuu enhbayr, bayr ahaa. Ardchilsan orond iim yum bolson ch ali boloh tentsvertei medeelel hurgeh gej uzdeg bhad manaihan end gantshan televizeer nuguuhuu davtaad arai l hetermeer yumaa. hu namiinhan luivardaagui bsan bol iim yum bolohgui baisan shuudee. tegees say zuragt harj bsan neg nuhur dainii baidal ch gej bh shig tenegteed bgaarai. humuus uurlaj buhimdaj, uzel bodoloo ilerhiilj bhad harin uuduus ni buu shagaij bdag Mongol kommunismruu uragshaa!
Macleans.ca wrote: "Mongolia is struggling to modernize its nomadic, agriculture-based economy. ... The two main political parties focused their campaigns on how to tap recently discovered mineral deposits - including copper, gold and coal - but disagreed over whether the government or private sector should hold a majority stake."
So there's really no choice - one can't vote against modernisation and the social and ecological devastation that come along with it. Modernisation, industrial mass-society is obviously a social, economical and ecological dead-end (or desert, eventually), both in its leftist and rightist manifestations. And so the above quote left me wondering is there really no extra-parliamentary, anti-modernist resistance in Mongolia? The mainstream media always seems to reduce all insurrectionary events into political struggles over State power, downplaying any possible shows of autonomous action and horizontal grassroots organisation. Despite this I believe much of the resistance may actually (or at least potentially) be anti-political and anti-statist - that is, manifesting a desire for spontaneous local autonomy instead of cheering for one or another political power clique.
Could someone comment on this, please?