英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

One year after a Taiwan envoy pleaded guilty to labor fraud in the United States, another is embroiled in controversy. This time it’s Taipei’s ambassador to Guatemala, Adolfo Sun. He was bashed by women’s groups today after a former staffer recently accused him of suggesting it’s ok to abuse women. 

Ambassador Adolfo Sun’s alleged verbal abuse began in March of 2011. A male secretary named Tsao Sung-mao and a female news staffer named Hu Sheng-fen were arguing over a piece of copy Hu wrote. Tsao thought the quality was poor and threw a file at Hu. Sun stepped in to calm the pair down, but apparently told Hu, quote, “What does it matter if women let men rough them up a bit?” After Hu filed a lawsuit against the secretary, Sun allegedly threatened her by saying, quote, “If you don’t obey, it will hasten your demise. And you’ll never get your pension.” Ambassador Sun denies the accusations, but women’s groups came to the defense of Hu.

Huang Sue-ying
Taiwan Women’s Link
I think it’s unbelievable that a country’s foreign representative could utterly disrespect women and say something that ignores human rights and democratic values. I think if he said such things, he’s not suitable for his position.

Steve Hsia
Foreign Ministry Spokesman
We didn’t hear the people involved say that this happened. But Secretary Tsao failed to exercise proper restraint, so we issued an administrative punishment.

If Ambassador Sun is found to have acted improperly, he will join a long list of Taiwanese envoys mired in overseas scandals. Former Fiji Representative Victor Chin used public funds to buy pearls and had an affair with a Japanese envoy. Former US envoy Jacqueline Liu and Palau Ambassador Maggie Tien both were involved in labor abuse scandals. Each damaged the country’s reputation abroad.

我國駐外單位又爆發爭議，我國駐瓜地馬拉大使孫大成疑似涉及性別歧視，說出「女人給男人打一打，有什麼關係」，孫則斷然否認，但婦團則痛批孫大成講出這種歧視言語，已經不適任！

我國駐瓜地馬拉大使孫大成，驚傳爭議。前年3月瓜地馬拉外館秘書曹松茂不滿新聞參事胡聖芬寫的公文，竟拿起公文卷宗丟向胡聖芬，孫大成雖然馬上介入協調，但胡聖芬也指控孫大成在事發時，除了說出「女人給男人打一打，有什麼關係」的話，孫大成還警告她，「若不聽話，會加速妳的毀滅！讓妳退休金永遠拿不到！」。但孫大成矢口否認。

[[女人連線秘書長 黃淑英]]
“我覺得非常不可思議，就是說一個國家的駐外代表，完全不尊重女性 沒有人權，沒有民主素養 我覺得他，如果講過這樣的話，那他就不適任這個位子”

[[外交部發言人 夏季昌 電訪照片]] 
“我們並沒有聽到當事人，有這麼提過，至於曹秘書，因為他行為不檢，我們已經做行政懲處了”

不過外館近年來出包連連，前駐斐濟代表秦日新既拿公費買珍珠，又和日本駐斐濟官員鬧婚外情，而我國駐美國堪薩斯前處長劉珊珊、駐帛琉大使田台清，接連發生虐傭事件，嚴重傷害我國形象！

文章出處 ：民視英語新聞