FEDERAL RECOGNITION VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAW
The Honolulu Advertiser - Letters to the Editor
We ku'e (reject) the Akaka bill pending in the U.S. Senate....
Whereas, we, descendants of the nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom
independent state founded in 1810, who thrived in Ka Pae 'aina prior to the unlawful United States military invasion of 1893, and U.S. military occupation and purported annexation in 1898, in violation of treaties and international law, have not been afforded the opportunity, unlike the peoples of other territories named on the said U.N. List, to exercise our full right of self-determination under international law, including the option of full independence;
Whereas, the United States itself formally recognized, in U.S. Congress Joint Apology Resolution (PL 103-150) signed by U.S. President William J. Clinton on Nov. 23, 1993, that we kanaka maoli people, who constituted the overwhelming majority of the nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893-1898, have never directly relinquished our inherent sovereignty nor our national lands to the United States;...
Kekuni Blaisdell, Kihei Soli Niheu, Terrilee Napua Keko'olani,
Puanani Rogers, Foster Kekahuna Ampong and Baron K.F. Ching
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