xi haiming, (mongolian: temtsiltu shobtsood) was born in 1957 in inner mongolia. in the mid 1970s, he was actively involved in inner mongolian efforts to hold the chinese government accountable to punish the people involved in the “cleansing campaign” during the cultural revolution. in 1981, the chinese government implemented a policy to resettle millions of chinese people in inner mongolia. xi, as a student at the university of inner mongolia, became an influential student leader fighting to have the chinese government reverse the policy and founded the inner mongolian league for the defense of human rights. due to his activities, the chinese authorities put him under surveillance. in 1991, many of his friends were arrested causing him to flee to mongolia. in 1993, he was granted political asylum in germany and currently lives there with his wife and daughter.