HAWAI`I UNDER US MILITARY OCCUPATION
By Zoe Kenny - 23 June 2007
“Not many people realise that Hawaiians feel that our country is under an occupation”, Terrilee Kekoolani, an organiser with the DMZ Hawai`i activist coalition, told a public meeting of 20 people on June 19.
She was in Australia to take part in protests against the US-Australian Talisman Sabre war games in Queensland.
Kekoolani explained that in 1893 the US organised a coup against the Hawaiian government of Queen Liliuokalani. This paved the way for a full-scale US military occupation in 1898.
Today, there 44,000 active duty US personnel in Hawai`i, who along with their 65,000 dependents and 100,000 retired military personnel, make up 17% of the islands’ population.
Kekoolani said that native Hawaiians, 20% of the population, have become a "maginalised minority withinour own land."
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