Hawai`i Report to the UN Committe to End Racial Discrimination
"Kanaka Maoli and Allies Assert Rights Violations Persist in Paradise and Recommends Independence"
Presented by Leon Siu for the Koani Foundation
12 August 2014 - Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
The U.S. claims that in 1898 it annexed the Hawaiian Islands and that in 1959 the Hawaiian people voted to become a federal ‘state’ of the U.S. Both of these claims are patently false.
Under Occupation-
The sovereign, independent state, the Hawaiian Kingdom, was never annexed by the United States and was never extinguished. The Hawaiian Islands is actually a nation in continuity. In 1959, the US deceived the United Nations into accepting Hawai`i as a federal state of the US, when in fact, Hawai`i was a nation under unlawful occupation. The perpetuation of this hoax robs Hawaiians of the means to seek redress and denies Hawaiians of our right to self-determination.
The Koani Foundation and the Hawaiian Kingdom have worked diligently to pursue independence under Article 15 focusing on decolonization and we ask the Committee to End Racial Discrimination (CERD) to consider the Alaska-Hawai`i Article 15 petition during this deliberation at the 85th Session.
The Indian Tribe Plot -
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is presently engaged in a vigorous campaign to reduce the status of the Native Hawaiian people into that of a domestic “federally recognized tribe” of the United States. Even though eighty to ninety percent of all the testimony submitted to the DOI emphatically opposed the proposal, the US continues to actively pursue this course.
No Consent -
Deprived of the right to self-determination, including free, prior and informed consent, Hawaiians are powerless to stop the many US policies and actions destructive to our resources, environment, social, political and economic structures.
As a result, the Hawaiian people suffer from many of the ills that plague other indigenous peoples such as -
• Dangerous dependency of imported Food and Energy
• Misuse of farmlands to raise genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for export to unsuspecting people around the world
• Disparate rate of homelessness, poverty, joblessness, crime, substance abuse, incarceration and disease
• Desecration of Sacred Sites for private and commercial purposes
• Militarization promoting a culture of war rather than peace. Placing Hawaiians at high risk of being attacked by enemies of the United States
• Contamination of lands, water the seas by the military and commercial interests
• Unrestrained Migration overwhelming finite island resources such as fresh water, housing, food supply, environment, etc.
CONCLUSION -
These abuses are occurring in large part because of the United Nations’ collusion in the United States’ unlawful occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
RECOMMENDATION -
Our recommendation is that the CERD act to transmit the Alaska-Hawai`i Article 15 petition to the proper UN body to review and provide Hawaiians a way to exercise self-determination to peacefully resolve this dire situation.
• Misuse of farmlands to raise genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for export to unsuspecting people around the world
• Disparate rate of homelessness, poverty, joblessness, crime, substance abuse, incarceration and disease
• Desecration of Sacred Sites for private and commercial purposes
• Militarization promoting a culture of war rather than peace. Placing Hawaiians at high risk of being attacked by enemies of the United States
• Contamination of lands, water the seas by the military and commercial interests
• Unrestrained Migration overwhelming finite island resources such as fresh water, housing, food supply, environment, etc.
CONCLUSION -
These abuses are occurring in large part because of the United Nations’ collusion in the United States’ unlawful occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
RECOMMENDATION -
Our recommendation is that the CERD act to transmit the Alaska-Hawai`i Article 15 petition to the proper UN body to review and provide Hawaiians a way to exercise self-determination to peacefully resolve this dire situation.
