Malu 'Aina

Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA)

     This letter is a response to an article in the Feb. 8, 2023, Hawaii Tribune-Herald entitled “Soldiers help prep Camp Kilohana for Girl Scouts.”

     The Hawaii Tribune-Herald is doing a lot of PR work for the military PTA lease renewal. An example is the article cited above. What’s not mentioned is making the Girl Scout cabins look nice for poisoning the Scouts with military toxins blowing in the wind off PTA. PTA toxins include cancer-causing, genetically damaging Depleted Uranium oxide particles, etc. It reminds me of the German Auschwitz extermination camp that built a playground for the children before more than a million people (including children) were gassed to death at Auschwitz. In the Nuremberg trials following WWII, a high-ranking German officer was asked “How many people tried to escape from Auschwitz?” He answered “No one tried to escape. After all, Auschwitz was a family camp!”

     Today, PTA is a training ground for nuclear war extermination of humanity — a Global Auschwitz. PTA is inviting school children from all over the island to “Experience Pohakuloa Day” on April 20th. Imagine, inviting children to a toxic waste dump, and a training site for nuclear war, as a way to celebrate “Earth Day.”

     I urge all parents and students — for the sake of the children’s health and safety — DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN GO TO POHAKULOA.  I also urge the Girl Scouts and all people of Hawaii Island to join the movement to Stop the Bombing of Pohakuloa. Cancel the Military Lease! Make the military clean up its toxic mess and return the land to the Hawaiian people! We need More Aloha, not more war, desecration, and poisoning of the ‘aina, people, plants, and animals. ENOUGH.

Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

End the Illegal Military Occupation of Hawai’i!

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