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Subject: Re: President and Vice-President of Radio Free Asia block investigation of criminal assault committed by RFA Cambodian section Director against broadcaster during meeting

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:20:44 GMT, FreeLao@xxxxxxx*** (Lao Houn Mai) wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:41:51 GMT, FreeLao@xxxxxxx*** (Lao Houn Mai) wrote:
>
>>President and Vice-President of Radio Free Asia block investigation of criminal assault committed by
>>RFA Cambodian section Director against broadcaster during meeting
>>
>>On 1st June 1998 a violent assault was committed by the Acting Director of the Cambodian section of
>>Radio Free Asia, Mr Vuthy Khin Huot, against a broadcasting member of the section in a politically
>>motivated attack, according to reliable sources who for safety reasons cannot be identified.
>>
>>The attack took place during a staff meeting in the Cambodian broadcasting section in the late
>>afternoon in Washington DC, and evidence indicates that it was carefully prepared in advance. The
>>disturbance was witnessed by the Tibetan section of RFA, and by various members of other sections.
>>In the attack, after unsuccessful attempts by Mr Huot and Mr Poly Sam to provoke the victim using
>>verbal abuse and intimidation, Mr Huot tried to throw a mug of boiling water into the victim's face.
>>Mr Huot was restrained by fellow members of the Cambodian section and ultimately forced out of the
>>room, saving the victim from serious injuries. 
>>
>>The attack followed months of serious intimidation and verbal abuse of the victim by both Mr Huot
>>and Mr Sam, and the day after the attack the victim made a formal request to the Vice President of
>>RFA Mr Dan Southerland for rearrangement of the weekend shift teams which would have required the
>>victim to work with both Mr Huot and Mr Sam. The victim reasonably considered that his safety was
>>seriously at risk, yet the Vice President of RFA refused to allow the change, thereby putting the
>>safety of a worker directly at risk. Furthermore in the seven weeks following the incident Radio
>>Free Asia has taken no disciplinary action whatsoever against Mr Huot. Despite the presence of such
>>a large number of witnesses, it appears that RFA has made no attempts to investigate the matter. It
>>also appears evident that RFA have used their very high level political connections to stall a
>>police investigation. Key witnesses have never been interviewed by the police, even though an
>>official report of the crime was made. 
>>
>>The attack follows an eight month long campaign of intimidation and harassment waged against the
>>victim by RFA President Richard Richter and Vice President Dan Southerland in an attempt to force
>>the victim to resign. In an earlier incident, Mr Dan Southerland arranged for broadcast files to be
>>deleted from the victim's computer by technicians in an attempt to accuse the victim of misconduct;
>>however the astuteness of the victim resulted in evidence that the files were deleted at the same
>>time that the technicians were operating the computer.
>>
>>Related problems exist in other sections of RFA. A talented young Stanford educated member of the
>>Korean section of RFA was fired by Dan Southerland after she filed charges of sexual harassment
>>against the Director of the Korean section. Her case against RFA was prosecuted by the Equal
>>Employment Opportunities Commission, who have complained of the misuse of high-level political
>>connections by the senior management of RFA in the case.
>>
>>The Burmese section of RFA recently broadcast wholly unsubstantiated and malicious allegations that
>>the Nobel Peace Prize winning Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi has had an affair with a journalist
>>during her many years under house arrest. The allegations appear to have been fabricated by the
>>repressive military regime to undermine her international image.
>>
>>A talented member of the Lao section has also recently been fired on absurd and trumped-up
>>allegations, again following many months of politically motivated harassment by the Director of the
>>section Mrs Viengsay Luangkhot Sananikhone, who is very closely linked to the communist regime in
>>Laos and who has major financial interests in protecting the communist regime.
>>
>>The Vietnamese and Chinese sections of RFA also have serious political problems.
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