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Who is Papalii Sia Figiel, accused killer of Tulsi Gabbard’s aunt?

The woman accused of murdering former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s aunt is a well-known Samoan author, acclaimed playwright and close friend of the alleged victim. Papalii Sia Figiel, 57, is currently in police custody after allegedly taking a hammer and a knife to Dr. Caroline Sinaivaiana Gabbard, a poet, former university professor and aunt of […]

Tulsi Gabbard’s Aunt Killed, Samoan Author Charged

The aunt of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Independent-Democratic Party of Hawaii) was reportedly murdered by a Samoan poet and writer who was arrested last weekend and charged with murder. Papalii Sia Figiel is charged with the murder of 78-year-old Caroline Sinaivaiana Gabbard, a retired professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sinaivaiana Gabbard was […]

Tulsi Gabbard’s Aunt Murdered, Suspect Charged: REPORT

According to multiple reports, Samoan authorities allege that a prominent Samoan novelist, poet and playwright murdered a prominent Samoan academic and fellow writer who was also the aunt of former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. Samoa police have charged Papalii Sia Figiel, 57, with manslaughter for the beating and stabbing death of Professor Caroline Sinaivaiana Gabbard, […]

Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘For Love of Country’ rings alarm bells for democracy

Are we at the end of history or the end of the republic? Decades ago, before September 11, 2001, in the midst of a jihadist war against the modern world, political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that history as we know it was over. Has completed. History, he says, is an effort toward the end of […]