October 24, 2005


Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Thatluang Road
Ban Phonxay
Vientiane, Laos

Dear Honorable Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad;

On behalf of the free world, the Fact Finding Commission would like to take a moment of your time to hear our response concerning the situation in Laos.  Our mission is to bring THE TRUTH inside Laos to the outside world. That is exactly what we have been doing.  On an interview broadcast through the Voices of America on October 14, 2005 by VOA correspondent, Songrit PhonNgern, you challenged the correspondent to tell you who were the ones wrote the reports regarding the ongoing genocide inside Laos and witnessed the truth inside Laos.  Unfortunately, your question was not addressed to the right person. Therefore, today FFC is going to answer that question for you.   

The reports on the ongoing genocide and war crime conducted by the combined military forces of the Lao PDR and Vietnamese soldiers against the so called "non-existent" veterans of the U.S. Secret Army and their families in the jungles of Laos were done by the Fact Finding Commission along with Time Magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation, Sunday Times in London, Associated Press, ABC Australia, San Francisco Chronicle and other news agencies.  Due to the fact that some members of the FFC are of Laotian descent, our reports may be viewed by certain individuals, such as yourself, as bias information.   Therefore, for your information, we've coordinated with various independent news agencies to validate our reports, testify in Washington D.C. in front members of Congress, in New York with the UN officials, and in Paris with European leaders.
 
The world now knows the hidden truth and secrets that your government has been hiding for more than three decades.  You oppress, persecute, chase, hunt the United States Secret War veterans and their families into the jungles and kill them.  You still lie to the international community that no such innocent people exist in the jungles.  These people have become displaced people and exile within their own country due to the ongoing genocide and war crime conducted by the Lao PDR government, like yourself who intentionally want to "exterminate these people to the root".   

You also challenged VOA correspondent Songrit PhonNgern regarding those who are personal eyewitnesses to such tragedies, thus being qualified to file such reports.  We encourage you to read the reports published by Time Asia Magazine on May 5, 2003, the Le Monde2 in June 2003 in France, the Phnom Penh Post on October 10-23, 2003 in Cambodia, the Sunday Times Magazine on December 10, 2003 in London.