Abstract
ABSTRACT The 1999 murder of a Sāmoan cabinet minister, organized as a hit by two political rivals, was quickly resolved by the country’s police and judicial system, leaving the rule of the Human Rights Protection Party largely unaffected. This was despite the large amount of evidence pointing to severe corruption at high political levels. Connections to party corruption and the killer’s family activity were re-exposed only later in the Panama Papers. Prime Minister Tuila‘epa Sa‘ilele, who said they were trying to kill him, fended off the corruption that was linked to his party and claimed the assassination was about family loyalty overriding rational thought. The killer, he said, was defending the honour of his family.
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