{"id":7707,"date":"2025-01-05T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2025-01-05T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:59:41","slug":"its-official-englands-oxford-university-press-publication-of-unconquered-states-makes-the-american-occupation-of-the-hawaiian-kingdom-the-longest-in-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/its-official-englands-oxford-university-press-publication-of-unconquered-states-makes-the-american-occupation-of-the-hawaiian-kingdom-the-longest-in-modern-history\/","title":{"rendered":"ITS OFFICIAL: England’s Oxford University Press publication of “Unconquered States” makes the American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom the Longest in Modern History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oxford University Press<\/a><\/strong> (OUP) has made it official that the American occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom is the longest occupation in modern history that began in 1893. It was previously thought that the longest occupation in modern history was the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem that began in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The significance of OUP’s publication of Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age<\/a><\/strong>, with a chapter written by Dr. Keanu Sai titled “Hawai\u2018i’s Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire<\/a><\/strong>” is that Hawai\u2018i was never the 50th State of the American Union but rather an occupied State under international law with its rights and obligations intact despite the prolonged nature of the occupation. What was defeated or overthrown, albeit illegally, was the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, and not the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State, which is also referred to as the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sai’s chapter reconnects the Hawaiian Kingdom to Great Britain, not the United States, when it became a British Protectorate in 1794 under the reign of King Kamehameha I. In 1843, Great Britain recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign and independent State, which ushered in the Hawaiian Kingdom into the Family of Nations<\/em>. Dr. Sai then explains the connection to the United States by an invasion of U.S. Marines on January 16, 1893, which led to the unlawful overthrow of the Hawaiian government and its unlawful seizure of the Hawaiian Islands during the Spanish-American War in 1898. To be conquered is for the Hawaiian Kingdom to have transferred its sovereignty and territory to the United States by a treaty of cession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no such treaty that exists except for the unlawful imposition of American laws, which is the war crime of usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation. Dr. Sai explains under international law why the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist as an occupied State under international law, which the Permanent Court of Arbitration acknowledged in 1999, in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. The PCA not only acknowledged the Hawaiian Kingdom’s continuity as a State, but also recognized the Council of Regency as its provisional government during the occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sai was one of 23 academic scholars from around the world that was invited to write a chapter on a non-European State that was not conquered under international law. If Dr. Sai’s chapter had no historical or legal basis, OUP would not have allowed the chapter to be published. This is a cornerstone of academic research where a scholar does not argue a position in their research, but rather provides historical and legal evidence that cannot be refuted. In this sense, the scholar is subject to a scientific approach where a scholar’s findings and conclusions are open for rebuttal by other scholars who serve as reviewers. This is called peer review in the academic world where opinions have no place. OUP states in the book, “Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only when the American occupation is recognized worldwide can the occupation come to an end by a treaty of peace. OUP is added leverage to bring compliance to the law of occupation or the criminal culpability that ensues if the State of Hawai\u2018i is not transformed into a Military Government<\/a><\/strong> to administer the laws of the occupied Hawaiian Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n

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