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Revision as of 06:15, 13 October 2005 by 209.240.205.62 (talk) (→History)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Kingdom of EnenKio, or "EnenKio," for short, claims to be a sovereign Micronesian state in the Northern Marshall Islands. However, it is not recognized in any international forum as a sovereign state; nor is it a corporate or statutory entity.
Marshall Islands statement
In 1998, the government of the Marshall Islands stated:
The Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands condemns the claims and activities asserted by (alleged) representatives of the "Kingdom of EnenKio" and the "Dominion of Melchizedek". The representatives making claims of separate sovereignty are not citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and have no right to make claims on behalf of Marshallese landowners. Furthermore, these representatives are making fraudulent assertions that violate the Republic of the Marshall Islands's constitution. The area of land and ocean which the "Kingdom of EnenKio" asserts as a sovereign nation separate from the Marshall Islands and (some of) the area of land and ocean which the "Dominion of Melchizedek" is asserting control over are areas within the geographical and political boundaries of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Location
The Kingdom of Eneen-Kio claims the three uninhabited islands (Peale Island, Wake Island, and Wilkes Island) that are collectively known as Wake Island. They comprise a total area of approximately 6.5 km² and are situated approximately 2300 statute miles west of the Hawaiian Islands and 2000 miles from Japan. The nearest island neighbor is Bokak Atoll of the Marshalls group, some 300 miles to the south. This coral atoll has been called by different names through history, such as San Francisco, Lamira, Disclerta, Halcyon, Helsion, Wilson. �� Traditional Leadership's Letter to US Ambassador Regarding Kwajalein In a letter written by Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) and former RMI President Imata Kabua, to the United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the views of Marshallese traditional leadership, of the Mojen Eo An Jeimata Kabua and its elders, toward the Ambassador's public statements regarding the US stance on the use of Kwajalein beyond of the life of the lease, which ends in 2016, are presented: Dear Ambassador Morris: In several public pronouncements, including statements in the Marshall Islands Journal, you have taken the public stance that you and your government believe that the MUORA under Compact II provides sufficient legal basis for and assurance of the continued use of Kwajalein beyond 2016. You have been adamant on this in spite of numerous meetings with you, prior to and after Compact II went into effect. During those meetings, our representatives have tried to explain to you and your advisors that we do not agree to the extension of the Kwajalein Land Use Agreement and the Marshallese Constitutional provisions thaat are at odds with your assumptions. It may very well be that those of us who wrote our Constitution and adopted it in plebiscite did not understand fully the fundamentals of law governing the taking of land in our country. But it could very well be that it is you who does not understand our position. No where in our Constitution is there a provision I am aware of that states that the United States of America does not have to abide by our laws. I shall try to reiterate once again what we have apparently been unsuccessful in conveying to you and your government. Our Constitution prohibits the taking of land without the consent of the owners of the land and fair compensation. The RMI government owns no land. For the legitimate use of Kwajalein beyond 2016, a Land Use Agreement between RMI and the people of Kwajalein is required by law and by the Constitution. No such agreement exists and we have proclaimed our intention not to agree to a new one and to return to our lands in 2016. Your condescending public statements ignoring that reality go beyond acceptable standards of international relations and, to us, reflect systematic taunting on the part of a powerful partner bullying a less powerful one. So pervasive is your attitude among other American representatives in our country that now an army colonel on temporary duty to oversee housekeeping chores there calls Kwajalein "my island!" You have never missed an opportunity to state that you have the right to use of Kwajalein beyond the life of the lease under which you now occupy our lands. Is it your position and that of your government that you will ignore the laws and Constitution of our land and take Kwajalein without the owners consent? Is it your position and that of your government that you will simply deny the existence of our Constitution and take land which belongs neither to you nor the government of the RMI, because that is what you were promised by people who have no rights to those lands? Knowing that the RMI possesses no rights to land in Kwajalein, yet claiming you have the right to remain there beyond 2016 is a remarkable display of colonial audacity. It is one thing to dress up Compact II as a guarantee of Kwajalein use rights when you needed to get this lopsided agreement through your own Congressional approval processes. We were surprised to find even the venerable Heritage Foundation a part of this gross misrepresentation of facts. If your government negotiators found it useful for their own purposes to be duplicitous with their own Congress in the presentation of Compact II, that is your business. But riding roughshod over our own Marshallese Constitutional processes to force that injustice upon our people is outrageous! Your government has done similar things to us in the past. The taking of Kili without compensation and handing it over to the people of Bikini in partial compensation for the nuclear obliteration of land in Bikini is a glowing example. Even your straight faced recollection on BRAVO day last year of the nuclear insult your government perpetrated upon our people was quite remarkable, considering all the facts now known and widely disseminated about what really happened. Stonewalling those issues like you are doing with the Kwajalein issues will not solve them. They aggravate an already grave and sensitive wound in our shaky relationship. You take Marshallese land without compensation, and use it to pay your debts to other Marshallese people whose lands and livelihood you have destroyed. While you abused us during the Trusteeship period, what you do now is even more acrimonious and unjust. You are threatening a sovereign nation. Your threat is not so veiled this time. And while it is not surprising, considering what you are doing in other parts of the world, we are not afraid to stand up to you and your might. We have legally confronted you before and we shall do it again to protect our homelands and assert our inalienable rights. While you may believe otherwise, we do not subscribe to your world policy that might makes right. What are you going to tell our elders, our children and grandchildren? That it is the "will of God" that you take Kwajalein and that "everything is in God's hands?" Make no mistake about our physical and spiritual ties to our lands. Our forefathers fought and died to provide us with this peaceful home, sovereign and free. Our right to live here peacefully and to pass it on to our heirs, whole and intact, is a fundamental right you and your government cannot take away. We have been your friends for the longest time in spite of the outrageous things your government has done to us. But there comes a time when even friends must draw the line. Madam Ambassador, it appears hypocritical on the one hand that the United States is losing thousands of American lives and continues to put at risk American and Marshallese lives to defend the cause of freedom and to inaugurate a new Constitution and establish democracy in Iraq, while on the other hand, your govemment is undermining the very foundation of our Marshallese constitutional democracy. You now have as accurate a presentation as possible of the views of the Mojen of Jeimata, its elders and those who belong. If there is something that we do not understand about your views regarding our relationship and your intentions for the future, please enlighten us. But treating us as if we are just grass for the American elephants to tromp on does not augur well for a mutually beneficial tomorrow. Respectfully yours, Iroijlaplap Imata Kabua Majuro October 4, 2005 Mojen Eo An Kabua I Post Office Box 5117 Ebeye, Kwajalein Atoll Republic of the Islands 96970 REPORTS: Marshalls Responds to Washington Post's Article �yokwenet@aol.com Robert Moore, Minister Plenipotentiary, Kingdom of EnenKio Foreign Trade Mission DO-MO-CO Manager, Remios Hermios Eleemosynary Trust, Majuro, Marshall Islands http://www.enenkio.org
History
It was first conceived in 1987. It began to emerge in 1993, was formally established in 1994, Murjel Hermios became the first Monarch of EnenKio. Following his death in December 1998, his brother Remios became second Monarch. The government of EnenKio is determined to peacefully regain occupation of Eneen-Kio Atoll to benefit the king, EnenKio citizens, and any persons who desire freedom from oppressive political or social systems. �� Traditional Leadership's Letter to US Ambassador Regarding Kwajalein In a letter written by Iroijlaplap (Paramount Chief) and former RMI President Imata Kabua, to the United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the views of Marshallese traditional leadership, of the Mojen Eo An Jeimata Kabua and its elders, toward the Ambassador's public statements regarding the US stance on the use of Kwajalein beyond of the life of the lease, which ends in 2016, are presented: Dear Ambassador Morris: In several public pronouncements, including statements in the Marshall Islands Journal, you have taken the public stance that you and your government believe that the MUORA under Compact II provides sufficient legal basis for and assurance of the continued use of Kwajalein beyond 2016. You have been adamant on this in spite of numerous meetings with you, prior to and after Compact II went into effect. During those meetings, our representatives have tried to explain to you and your advisors that we do not agree to the extension of the Kwajalein Land Use Agreement and the Marshallese Constitutional provisions thaat are at odds with your assumptions. It may very well be that those of us who wrote our Constitution and adopted it in plebiscite did not understand fully the fundamentals of law governing the taking of land in our country. But it could very well be that it is you who does not understand our position. No where in our Constitution is there a provision I am aware of that states that the United States of America does not have to abide by our laws. I shall try to reiterate once again what we have apparently been unsuccessful in conveying to you and your government. Our Constitution prohibits the taking of land without the consent of the owners of the land and fair compensation. The RMI government owns no land. For the legitimate use of Kwajalein beyond 2016, a Land Use Agreement between RMI and the people of Kwajalein is required by law and by the Constitution. No such agreement exists and we have proclaimed our intention not to agree to a new one and to return to our lands in 2016. Your condescending public statements ignoring that reality go beyond acceptable standards of international relations and, to us, reflect systematic taunting on the part of a powerful partner bullying a less powerful one. So pervasive is your attitude among other American representatives in our country that now an army colonel on temporary duty to oversee housekeeping chores there calls Kwajalein "my island!" You have never missed an opportunity to state that you have the right to use of Kwajalein beyond the life of the lease under which you now occupy our lands. Is it your position and that of your government that you will ignore the laws and Constitution of our land and take Kwajalein without the owners consent? Is it your position and that of your government that you will simply deny the existence of our Constitution and take land which belongs neither to you nor the government of the RMI, because that is what you were promised by people who have no rights to those lands? Knowing that the RMI possesses no rights to land in Kwajalein, yet claiming you have the right to remain there beyond 2016 is a remarkable display of colonial audacity. It is one thing to dress up Compact II as a guarantee of Kwajalein use rights when you needed to get this lopsided agreement through your own Congressional approval processes. We were surprised to find even the venerable Heritage Foundation a part of this gross misrepresentation of facts. If your government negotiators found it useful for their own purposes to be duplicitous with their own Congress in the presentation of Compact II, that is your business. But riding roughshod over our own Marshallese Constitutional processes to force that injustice upon our people is outrageous! Your government has done similar things to us in the past. The taking of Kili without compensation and handing it over to the people of Bikini in partial compensation for the nuclear obliteration of land in Bikini is a glowing example. Even your straight faced recollection on BRAVO day last year of the nuclear insult your government perpetrated upon our people was quite remarkable, considering all the facts now known and widely disseminated about what really happened. Stonewalling those issues like you are doing with the Kwajalein issues will not solve them. They aggravate an already grave and sensitive wound in our shaky relationship. You take Marshallese land without compensation, and use it to pay your debts to other Marshallese people whose lands and livelihood you have destroyed. While you abused us during the Trusteeship period, what you do now is even more acrimonious and unjust. You are threatening a sovereign nation. Your threat is not so veiled this time. And while it is not surprising, considering what you are doing in other parts of the world, we are not afraid to stand up to you and your might. We have legally confronted you before and we shall do it again to protect our homelands and assert our inalienable rights. While you may believe otherwise, we do not subscribe to your world policy that might makes right. What are you going to tell our elders, our children and grandchildren? That it is the "will of God" that you take Kwajalein and that "everything is in God's hands?" Make no mistake about our physical and spiritual ties to our lands. Our forefathers fought and died to provide us with this peaceful home, sovereign and free. Our right to live here peacefully and to pass it on to our heirs, whole and intact, is a fundamental right you and your government cannot take away. We have been your friends for the longest time in spite of the outrageous things your government has done to us. But there comes a time when even friends must draw the line. Madam Ambassador, it appears hypocritical on the one hand that the United States is losing thousands of American lives and continues to put at risk American and Marshallese lives to defend the cause of freedom and to inaugurate a new Constitution and establish democracy in Iraq, while on the other hand, your govemment is undermining the very foundation of our Marshallese constitutional democracy. You now have as accurate a presentation as possible of the views of the Mojen of Jeimata, its elders and those who belong. If there is something that we do not understand about your views regarding our relationship and your intentions for the future, please enlighten us. But treating us as if we are just grass for the American elephants to tromp on does not augur well for a mutually beneficial tomorrow. Respectfully yours, Iroijlaplap Imata Kabua Majuro October 4, 2005 Mojen Eo An Kabua I Post Office Box 5117 Ebeye, Kwajalein Atoll Republic of the Islands 96970 REPORTS: Marshalls Responds to Washington Post's Article �yokwenet@aol.com Robert Moore, Minister Plenipotentiary, Kingdom of EnenKio Foreign Trade Mission DO-MO-CO Manager, Remios Hermios Eleemosynary Trust, Majuro, Marshall Islands http://www.enenkio.org
Name
"E-n-e-n-K-i-o" is a spelling derived from the native name of the northernmost Marshallese atoll, Eneen-Kio Atoll, which was also once written as Enen-kio, the name Eneen-Kio(or EnenKio) means: "Island of the orange flower" in the Marshallese language.