Pelosi of the US calls on world leaders China 2022 Olympic Games | Human Rights News

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced China’s human rights violations against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.

US Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, criticizing China human rights violations and saying that the world leaders who attend would lose their moral authority.

U.S. lawmakers have spoken out louder and louder Olympic boycott or change of place.

They have also filed lawsuits against American corporations, arguing silence over what the U.S. State Department thinks genocide against Uighur and other ethnic minorities in China pushed for the Chinese government.

Democrat Pelosi in a speech to the two-party congress on the issue on Tuesday said heads of state around the world should rule out games scheduled for February.

Pelosi said he was proposing a “diplomatic boycott” of “refusing to allow the world’s major countries to attend the Olympics.”

“Let us not honor the Chinese government so that heads of state can go to China,” Pelosi said.

“The head of state to go to China as a result of an ongoing genocide – while you are sitting in your seat – really asks the question, what moral authority do you have again to talk about human rights anywhere in the world?” He said.

The United Nations Independent Bureau said in 2018 that it had received credible reports that at least one million Uighurs and other Muslims had been in the camps in the western Xinjiang region of China. Beijing describes the camps as a vocational training center aimed at killing “extremists” he strongly rejects the allegations abuse and genocide.

Parliamentarian Jim McGovern said the games should be relocated.

“If we can postpone the Olympics for a year due to a pandemic, we can surely postpone the Olympics for a year due to a genocide,” McGovern, Japan and the International Olympic Committee said of the decision to postpone the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uighurs watching a dance performance at the Urumqi International Bazaar in western Xinjiang [File: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

“This would give the COI time to relocate to a country where the government does not commit atrocities,” McGovern said.

In the US, there is a growing demand for a boycott of the Beijing Games.

Last month, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney introduced an amendment to broader legislation to impose a U.S. diplomatic boycott on China, while a coalition of human rights activists on Tuesday called for a boycott of athletes and pressure on the IOC.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has said it hopes to develop a joint approach with allies to participate in the Beijing Olympics, but Secretary of State Antony Blink has repeatedly said the issue has not yet been discussed.

Asked about Pelosi’s comments, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters news agency that his stance on the 2022 Olympics has not changed.

Last month, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney introduced an amendment that would impose a U.S. diplomatic boycott [File: Susan Walsh/Pool via AP]

Biden, also a Democrat, said China is a strategic competitor to the U.S.

Proponents of U.S. athletes competing in the Olympics say it would be unfair to punish athletes, and that the games would provide the U.S. with a platform with one of the highest medals at the Winter Olympics to showcase its vitality on the global stage.

Sarah Hirshland, director general of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Commission (USOPC), said in a statement to Congress that the USOPC was concerned about the “oppression of the Uyghur population,” but that U.S. athletes were banned from the games. there was “certainly no answer.”

“The Olympic boycotts of the past have not achieved political goals – and we should all pause to look at another boycott,” he said.