Lie-in protest staged while lawmakers celebrated 26th anniversary of the Constitution | The UB Post
▻http://theubpost.mn/2018/01/16/lie-in-protest-staged-while-lawmakers-celebrated-26th-anniversary-of-the-c
The “Booj Ukhlee” (Chocking to Death) movement against air pollution resumed with a lie-in protest with elderly people and children at Sukhbaatar Square last Saturday.
Mums and Dads Against Smog NGO organized the #lie-in, also known as #dead-in, to implant a stronger image of how the #air_pollution in the city is slowly killing them while causing all kinds of respiratory diseases to all members of the public.
While the young and old laid on freezing cold pavement at -14 degrees Celsius for hours at the southwestern side of Sukhbaatar Square with only a thin mattress to lessen the cold hard surface, members of Parliament, Cabinet and Ulaanbaatar City Council paid respect to Chinggis Khaan’s statue in commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution. They completely ignored the lie-in as they made their way to General D.Sukhbaatar’s statue at the center of the square to lay wreaths only a few feet away from the protesters.
[…]
However, air quality monitoring stations set up throughout Ulaanbaatar still signal air pollution as “hazardous”. On Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m., PM2.5 level was recorded 409 micrograms per cubic meters at Tolgoit area and 371 micrograms per cubic meters at MNB, indicating that air pollution is at hazardous level. Sensors at Nisekh, Bayankhoshuu, and the Western Central Intersection were at “very unhealthy” level, measuring from 222 to 286 micrograms per cubic meters, while the other sensors signaled “unhealthy”, PM 2.5 measuring slightly under 200 micrograms per cubic meters.
