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Hawaii Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
On the Authority, Duties, and International Reporting Role of the
Office of Hawaiian Subjects (OHS)
Issued by: Hawaiʻi Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal (HKHT)
Date: 01 JAN 2026
Statement of Purpose
This public announcement is issued to clarify, for the people of Hawaiʻi and the international community, the lawful authority, duties, and allegiance of the Office of Hawaiian Subjects (OHS), and to dispel persistent mischaracterizations of its role and mandate.
1. Identity and Authority of the Office of Hawaiian Subjects
The Office of Hawaiian Subjects (OHS) is a lawful humanitarian and administrative body operating under:
The continuity of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign state under prolonged occupation,
The authority of the Hawaiʻi Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal, and
International humanitarian law governing occupied states, including the Hague Regulations (1907) and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949).
OHS does not derive its authority from the State of Hawaiʻi, the United States, or any subordinate political subdivision thereof.
OHS exists to protect Hawaiian Subjects, who are recognized by the Tribunal as Protected Persons under international humanitarian law.
2. Allegiance and Duty
The Office of Hawaiian Subjects formally pledges its allegiance to the Kingdom of Hawaii, its people, and its lawful institutions.
This allegiance is not symbolic.
It is expressed through:
Refusal to recognize unlawful jurisdiction imposed by an occupying administration,
Protection of Hawaiian Subjects from unlawful confinement, coercion, and economic extraction,
Defense of Hawaiian Kingdom lands from unlawful alienation, sale, or encumbrance,
Preservation of cultural, familial, and national integrity.
OHS owes no allegiance to the State of Hawaiʻi.
3. Core Duties of the Office of Hawaiian Subjects
The duties of OHS include, but are not limited to:
Protection of Hawaiian Subjects
Documentation of unlawful detention, confinement, transfer, and supervision,
Protection of families (ʻohana) affected by custodial and administrative harm.
Documentation of Violations
Issuance of government notices and violation citations,
Preservation of evidence related to land alienation, taxation, incarceration, and cultural interference,
Maintenance of cumulative exposure records.
Humanitarian Oversight
Acting as a humanitarian monitor within occupied territory,
Recording patterns of harm, non-engagement, and willful disregard after notice.
Record Preservation
Locking chronology through timestamped notices and public records,
Preventing denial, erasure, or retroactive minimization of harm.
OHS does not exercise police power, criminal enforcement, or physical coercion.
Its authority is record-making, protective, and humanitarian—and therefore durable.
4. Relationship to the Hawaiʻi Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal
OHS operates in coordination with and under the guidance of the Hawaiʻi Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal.
The Tribunal:
Issues Findings of Fact,
Makes Cultural Determinations,
Conducts Humanitarian Assessments,
Provides recommendations and directives consistent with Hawaiian Kingdom law and international humanitarian standards.
OHS serves as the operational and documentation arm that carries those determinations into the public and international record.
5. Reporting to International Bodies
The Office of Hawaiian Subjects has a duty to report documented violations and patterns of harm to appropriate international bodies, including but not limited to:
United Nations Special Procedures,
International humanitarian and Indigenous rights mechanisms,
International archival and monitoring institutions.
These reports are not requests for permission.
They are formal submissions for record, review, and preservation, made so that violations affecting a protected population cannot be denied or forgotten.
Silence from international bodies does not negate submission.
Receipt and preservation are sufficient to establish record.
6. On Mischaracterization and Dismissal
Attempts to dismiss OHS as:
“informal,”
“symbolic,”
“non-binding,” or
“without authority”
are incorrect and misleading.
OHS is not a political advocacy group.
It is a humanitarian authority operating under occupation law, accountable to the Hawaiian Kingdom and guided by Kupuna authority.
Mockery, silence, or refusal to engage by State actors does not weaken OHS.
It strengthens the evidentiary record.
7. Closing Declaration
The Office of Hawaiian Subjects exists because the Hawaiian people continue to exist.
It operates because harm continues to be done.
It documents because documentation is the first line of protection for an occupied people.
This announcement is issued so there is no confusion:
OHS stands with the Hawaiian Kingdom.
OHS protects Hawaiian Subjects.
OHS records what others try to ignore.
OHS reports to the world, not to the occupier.
Issued in dignity, clarity, and resolve.
Hawaiʻi Kupuna Humanitarian Tribunal
For the protection of life, land, culture, and nation
War Crimes Charges & Counts
War Crime is a serious offense and it involves Executives such as: Judges, Governors, Chief of Police, Wardens, Department of Public Safety Agents, etc. Sentence: 10 years to life imprisonment
War Crimes Charges
A Government Reporting Agency
⚖️ NOTICE OF REPORTING TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC)
The Office of Hawaiian Subjects (OHS), acting under the authority of the Hawaiian Kingdom and in accordance with international law, reports all verified cases involving:
• Unlawful confinement or detention of Hawaiian Subjects
• Acts of emolument, coercion, or occupation within Hawaiian territory
• Human rights or humanitarian law violations
• Breach of international treaties or protections
All findings and reports are formally transmitted to the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), through the Council of Regency of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
OHS maintains a complete record within the OHS Digital Archives System as part of its lawful duty of evidence preservation and humanitarian oversight.
OHS reports verified violations of international and humanitarian law to the International Criminal Court (ICC) under the authority of the Hawaiian Kingdom laws.