The Situation of The Hawaiian Kingdom A Nation in Continuity

July 27, 2023
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The Situation of The Hawaiian Kingdom
A Nation in Continuity

  • Article for DIVA
  • Submitted 15 May 2023
  • H.E. Leon Kaulahao Siu
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • The Hawaiian Kingdom

Most people, including diplomats and international experts, are unaware of the ongoing situation concerning the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands — that Hawaii is being held captive under a strange form of occupation by the United States of America.

Contrary to the assumption that it is no longer around, the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands does still exist as a sovereign, independent country in continuity.

At no time did the Hawaiian Kingdom, relinquish its sovereignty or any of its territory to the United States… or any other foreign country.

At no time did the United States acquire the sovereignty or any territory from the Hawaiian Kingdom.

At no time was the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom extinguished.

That means the Hawaiian Islands is not now — and never was — a part of the United States, and the fabricated “State of Hawaii” is an entity concocted by the United States to conceal a colonial criminal enterprise.

History of the Situation:

During the 19th century, the Hawaiian Kingdom was recognized and respected as a fully sovereign nation, enjoying trade, discourse, bilateral and multilateral treaties with other sovereign nations, with 137 embassies and consulates posted around the world.

In 1893, without warning or provocation, fully armed U.S. troops landed in Honolulu, to give military support to a small group of insurgents (traitors), setting into motion a series of unlawful acts to gain control of the Hawaiian Islands. Those unlawful acts included: fomenting regime changes, installing puppet governments; imposing U.S. laws; imposing U.S. citizenship; and even hijacking the UN decolonization procedures.

The US Admits Wrongful Acts:

Two U.S. Presidents, Grover Cleveland in 1893 and William Clinton in 1993, formally apologized for the wrongful taking of the Hawaiian Islands, admitting that the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom was never lawfully relinquished or extinguished.

Despite its own admissions, the United States continues the pretense that Hawaii is an integral part of the United States; refuses to recognize Hawaii’s sovereignty; and avoids the legal and moral obligations to withdraw its claim from Hawaii. Instead, the United States seeks to manufacture an indigenous Hawaiian tribal nation to be a proxy to produce a phony “settlement” that would allow the United States to remain in absolute control of the Islands. 

Current Situation:

About 40 years ago, a small remnant of descendants of Hawaiian Kingdom subjects — Hawaiian nationals — activated a movement to liberate the Hawaiian Islands from the U.S. and to reinstate the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign, independent nation-state.

These Hawaiian nationals are calling upon members of the international community to honor treaties, agreements and covenants they had made with the Hawaiian Kingdom, so the Hawaiian people can normalize and resume living in peace and harmony as part of the family of nations. 

Status Under the United Nations:

Concealing the fact that the Hawaiian Kingdom was already a recognized sovereign country (and had been for 103 years), in 1946 the United States placed the “Territory of Hawaii” on the United Nations list of “Non-Self-Governing Territories” under GA Resolution 66 and Article 73 of the UN Charter, ostensibly offering the Hawaiian Islands to the UN’s decolonization procedure.

It is now apparent that this was a ploy of the United States to exploit the UN’s decolonization process, by projecting the appearance of magnanimity while concealing the wrongful taking of the Hawaiian Islands. In 1959, the United States conducted a sham decolonization referendum then submitted Report A/4226 to the UN General Assembly falsely purporting the Hawaiian People had consented to become integrated into the United States.

The UN General Assembly accepted the United States Report at face value without verification of the referendum process by neutral observers or a competent UN agency. Then on 12 December 1959, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469, erroneously concluding the political status of the Hawaiian Islands was “settled” and Hawaii was no longer regarded as a non-self-governing territory.

By submitting a misleading report, the United States deliberately hijacked the UN decolonization process, causing the UN itself to become complicit in the fraud. Unfortunately, even though it was the result of fraud, UNGA Resolution 1469 still stands as the official position of the United Nations. That means the UN and its 193 members are bound by Resolution 1469 to regard Hawaii as an integral part of the United States. The presumption that “the political question has been settled” precludes any legal recourse to the international wrongful acts of the United States with regard to Hawaii’s sovereignty. 

Engaging the United Nations

Over the past 20 years, Hawaiians have filed numerous petitions, reports, complaints and appeals to various bodies of the UN, protesting the United States’ false claim to the Hawaiian Islands. Communications to the UN include: appeals to the Secretary General, various Presidents of the General Assembly, the Decolonization Committee, the Fourth Committee, the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, the Human Rights Council, the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and others. All to no avail. 

Some Movement at the United Nations

Following are a few indications of some international concern for the Hawaii situation:

  • In 2008, members of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination asked the United States to explain the procedure used to make Hawaii a state of the United States. The US did not respond.
  • In 2010 at a side event of the Universal Periodic Review of the USA, the US representative dodged the question about the procedure used to induct Hawaii into the United States. He said, “The political question has been settled.”
  • In 2013, Dr. Alfred M. deZayas, the UN independent expert for the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, in paragraph 69 (n) of his Report A/68/284 to the UN General Assembly, cited Hawaii among the places that should be addressed by the United Nations decolonization procedures. This indicated that Independent Expert Dr. Zayas regarded the question of the political status Hawaii is indeed, not settled.
  • In 2015 at the Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan requested that the United States respond to the recommendation of paragraph 69 (n) from Dr. Zayas’ 2013 report to the UN General Assembly, pertaining to the situations of Alaska, Hawaii and the Dakotas. This query by Pakistan indicated that these matters of political status under international law have not been properly settled. The United States did not respond to Pakistan’s question.
  • In 2017 the Hawaiian Islands filed petitions with both the Fourth Committee and the Committee of 24, calling for a review of UNGA Resolution 1469 and, upon finding it resulted from faulty information, declare UNGA Resolution 1469 to be null and void. There was no response.
  • In 2017 a complaint was filed with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights by heirs and descendants, titleholders to lands in Hawaii, whose lands had been unlawfully seized and sold to foreign entities, in collusion with the courts of the puppet government, the State of Hawaii. Since these are private titles granted by the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, they require adjudication under Hawaiian Kingdom laws or under Hawaiian Kingdom treaties. There was no response from the High commissioner.
  • In 2018 Dr Alfred M. deZayas, in his capacity as a UN independent expert, wrote in a memorandum to judges of the State of Hawaii: “I have come to understand that the lawful political status of the Hawaiian Islands is that of a sovereign nation-state in continuity; but a nation-state that is under a strange form of occupation by the United States resulting from an illegal military occupation and a fraudulent annexation.
  • The 2019 Shadow Report by the Koani Foundation Hawaii, submitted to address the Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America, enumerated multiple human rights violations in the Hawaiian Islands resulting from the illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States and posed the following questions to the United States:
  1. In light of the wrongful acts leading to the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom to which the U.S. admits, and the current treatment of Hawaiian nationals as occupied people in the Hawaiian Islands, and in light of Geneva Convention IV and Article 1 of the ICCPR, how does the U.S. intend to rectify the denial of the human rights of Hawaiian nationals, particularly their right of self-determination? 
  1. In light of the legal admissions of the U.S. Congress in the Apology Law, (S. Public Law 103-150) and the confiscation of 1.8 million acres of Hawaiian lands, as well as submerged lands, resources and energy, how does the U.S. plan to restore the control of land and natural resources to the Hawaiian people and to ensure subsistence rights and the right to freely dispose of (or conserve) their natural resources? 
  1. How does the U.S. intend to harmonize its National Security policies with the Hawaiian people’s right to self-determination within the provisions of Article 1 of the ICCPR; and the right to peace and safety?

The United States did not respond to the questions posed by the Shadow Report. 

The Solution

Correcting The Error

We call upon the UN General Assembly to review the circumstances that led to the adoption of UNGA Resolution 1469 of 12 December 1959. And that upon discovering its deficiencies and error, the UN would carry out its obligation under the Charter to correct the error by revoking UNGA Resolution 1469, thus invalidating the United States’ claim that “the political question has been settled,” and repudiating the United States’ claim of sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands. The inherent sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands would become undeniably apparent under international law, and the U.S. will be charged with a sacred obligation to withdraw its claim of jurisdiction, its control and its operations from the Hawaiian Islands.

Thus, through peaceful means, the illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States would be brought to an end, and the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands would be affirmed and reinstated as a sovereign, independent state.

A simple review by the General Assembly of UNGA Resolution 1469 would trigger the return of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands to its proper standing as a sovereign, independent, neutral country.

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