Mongol banner police in Manchukuo

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Mongol banner police in Manchukuo

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Post by Hama » 12 May 2018, 10:16

I'm trying to gather info on how the ethnic Mongol police forces were organised in Manchukuo during the 1930s-40s, and any details on their activities during this period.

So far, it seems that both Xingan and Rehe regions had separate Mongol police organisations. According to Inauthentic Sovereignty: Law and Legal Institutions in Manchukuo by Thomas D. Dubois, in September 1937 there were separate banner courts established in the Mongol-populated areas of Xingan and Rehe provinces. In Life and Death in the Garden: Sex, Drugs, Cops, and Robbers in Wartime China, Kathryn Meyer states that the Manchukuo police organisation in 1937 included 37 banner offices. In The Japanese Attempt to Solve the Mongol Question in Manchuria, 1931-1945, Richard D.S. Kwak states that in 1938 the North Xingan, South Xingan, and West Xingan provinces had a police affairs department as well as a police bureau, which was headed by Mongols who were "assisted" by Japanese advisors. Kwak also mentions banner police courts in this paper.

This is all I could find so far. Any more info on Mongol police forces in Manchukuo would be appreciated.

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