From September 1st, thousands of schools across Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in China, will stop delivering classes in the language of the local minority. Instead, all classes will be held in the Chinese language. “The fate of Mongolian language education seems to be sealed. We argued to defend our rights to the mother tongue that are guaranteed by the Chinese Constitutions and the Ethnic Minority Autonomy Law,” a Mongolian teacher said in an audio statement. “This not only is unconstitutional but also is a flagrant violation of the basic human rights of the Mongolian people from a universal human rights perspective,” he added. On June 3rd, 2020, Mr. Ge Weiwei, Assistant Director of the Department of National Minority Education of the Chinese Ministry of Education, visited Tongliao Municipality. During his tour of several Mongolian schools, Ge Weiwei verbally instructed the teachers to replace Mongolian with Chinese as the language of instruction starting this coming semester. However, there was no official explanation for this change from the government.