Com­ment: Illus­trat­ing the diverse appeal of the National Social­ist phi­los­o­phy, Mon­go­lia is expe­ri­enc­ing an upsurge in neo-Nazi activ­ity, as a deriv­a­tive of anti-Chinese sentiment.

One can but won­der what links these ele­ments may have to the Dalai Lama’s fascist/Nazi asso­ciates and his­tory, as well as the use of Muslim-Brotherhood Uighur ele­ments to agi­tate for the seces­sion of  oil-rich Xin­jiang province.

This phe­nom­e­non also illus­trates how deep resent­ment can be manip­u­lated, ulti­mately, against the best inter­ests of those who are seduced by off­shoots of Nazism.

“Mon­go­lian Neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese Sen­ti­ment Fuels Rise of Ultra-Nationalism” by Tania Brani­gan; guardian.co.uk; 8/2/2010.

Excerpt: Their right hands rise to black-clad chests and flash out in salute to their nation: “Sieg heil!” They praise Hitler’s devo­tion to eth­nic purity.

But with their high cheek­bones, dark eyes and brown skin, they are hardly the Third Reich’s Aryan ideal. A new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home: Mongolia.

Once again, ultra-nationalists have emerged from an impov­er­ished econ­omy and turned upon out­siders. This time the main tar­gets come from China, the ris­ing power to the south.

Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, por­tray them­selves as patri­ots stand­ing up for ordi­nary cit­i­zens in the face of for­eign crime, ram­pant inequal­ity, polit­i­cal indif­fer­ence and corruption.

But crit­ics say they scape­goat and attack the inno­cent. The US state depart­ment has warned trav­ellers of increased assaults on inter-racial cou­ples in recent years – includ­ing organ­ised vio­lence by ultra-nationalist groups.

Dayar Mon­gol threat­ened to shave the heads of women who sleep with Chi­nese men. Three years ago, the leader of Blue Mon­gol was con­victed of mur­der­ing his daughter’s boyfriend, report­edly because the young man had stud­ied in China.

Though Tsagaan Khass lead­ers say they do not sup­port vio­lence, they are self-proclaimed Nazis. “Adolf Hitler was some­one we respect. He taught us how to pre­serve national iden­tity,” said the 41-year-old co-founder, who calls him­self Big Brother. . . .