Ayau: Kanupa cave looting should also be prosecuted by state
Also in today's
Advertiser
letters,
Edward Halealoha Ayau, Executive director of
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i
Nei, has a letter about the Kanupa caves looting arrest, pointing out
that "Hui Malama has conducted over 100 reburials statewide, and this is the
first and only time a reburial site has been re-disturbed," and arguing that the
crimes should be prosecuted under state law as well as
federal.Last Saturday there was an
Advertiser
article
and
Star-Bulletin
article
about the first guilty plea in the federal cases.
Posted: Fri - March 31, 2006 at 11:56 AM