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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
May 4, 2006 ‘Ehu Cardwell
(619) 885-4848 Nationwide Cell
freehawaii@earthlink.net
HAWAIIANS CHALLENGE U.S. VIOLATIONS
Self-Governance and Control of Resources Denied
Honolulu - Three Native Hawaiian groups have filed a Shadow Report detailing on-going human rights violations against native Hawaiians since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii, The Koani Foundation and Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike filed their report with the UN Human Rights Committee challenging Bush Administration claims that the United States has complied with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international Human Rights Treaty, to which the U.S. is signatory.
The three Hawaiian groups also endorsed and supported, with the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, a second report filed by the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition which raises human rights violation by the U.S. as the administering agent of the Non-Self Governing Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.
“The reports demonstrate the historic and continuing violation of our people’s right to self-governance and self-determination that predates the overthrow and continues to the present,” said Mililani Trask, Convener of Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii.
“Self-determination is the right of the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiians) to determine their political status and to freely pursue our economic, social and cultural development. It also means we have the right to control our natural wealth, land and resources which have been withheld from our peoples since statehood was imposed in 1959” Trask said.
The Shadow Reports may be viewed at wisperhawaii.com/~kaiopua/
The Human Rights Committee will meet in Geneva this summer to review the U.S. report and present questions to the United States.
The current U.S. report ignores Hawaii’s indigenous peoples; and only remotely addresses American Indians and U.S. Trust Territories.
For more information contact Mililani B. Trask, (808) 961-2888, Kaiopua Fyfe, Director, The Koani Foundation, (808) 822-7643 or Kekuni Blaisdell, Chair, Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, (808) 595-6691.
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May 4, 2006 ‘Ehu Cardwell
(619) 885-4848 Nationwide Cell
freehawaii@earthlink.net
HAWAIIANS CHALLENGE U.S. VIOLATIONS
Self-Governance and Control of Resources Denied
Honolulu - Three Native Hawaiian groups have filed a Shadow Report detailing on-going human rights violations against native Hawaiians since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii, The Koani Foundation and Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike filed their report with the UN Human Rights Committee challenging Bush Administration claims that the United States has complied with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international Human Rights Treaty, to which the U.S. is signatory.
The three Hawaiian groups also endorsed and supported, with the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, a second report filed by the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition which raises human rights violation by the U.S. as the administering agent of the Non-Self Governing Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.
“The reports demonstrate the historic and continuing violation of our people’s right to self-governance and self-determination that predates the overthrow and continues to the present,” said Mililani Trask, Convener of Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii.
“Self-determination is the right of the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiians) to determine their political status and to freely pursue our economic, social and cultural development. It also means we have the right to control our natural wealth, land and resources which have been withheld from our peoples since statehood was imposed in 1959” Trask said.
The Shadow Reports may be viewed at wisperhawaii.com/~kaiopua/
The Human Rights Committee will meet in Geneva this summer to review the U.S. report and present questions to the United States.
The current U.S. report ignores Hawaii’s indigenous peoples; and only remotely addresses American Indians and U.S. Trust Territories.
For more information contact Mililani B. Trask, (808) 961-2888, Kaiopua Fyfe, Director, The Koani Foundation, (808) 822-7643 or Kekuni Blaisdell, Chair, Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, (808) 595-6691.
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Re: Hawaiians Challenge US Violations
Thu, June 1, 2006 - 10:58 AMThank you for sharing this, please keep the news coming. Also please note the updates from Caledonia in Canada, the judge has ordered the arrest of the leaders of 6 Nations.
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Update from Caledonia - 1 Jun 1:15p
WhiteWolf said 2 minutes ago:
1:15 PM Caledonia time- voice mail message in to me from Jacqueline. She said that the OPP Liaison, Ron George contacted 6Nations representative, Dick Hill and told him that the high number of OPP around Caledonia are there due to a huge community “Yard Sale” being held and they were concerned about any outbreaks of violence from that going on. Jacqueline reminded me that this same kind of “reasoning” was used about OPP training exercises going on when the OPP attacked 6Nations the first time.
A call directly to Kimberly and David Maracle who are there on the site in Caledonia, revealed that thought the OPP, numbering over 100 currently, are NOT moving in right now, but they are moving around them on 4 wheelers and circling the encampment site.
Jacqueline said in her voice mail to me that the 6Nations leaders are awaiting word from the Court House in Cayuga as to what this Judge Marshall will issue in terms of mandating his civil injunction orders or not. THAT decision will be the primary turning point as to the acceleration of potential violence on the site knowing that the 6Nations people are probably NOT going to leave that site.
More updates as soon as I receive them.
Serving in Peace,
Wahela Bluejay
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace –
