Although I have been a frequent and grateful visitor to the ancestral islands of Hawai‘i over the last two decades, it wasn’t until early 2015 that I became fully cognizant that these were lands and waters under an illegal occupation by the US government since the Spanish-American War. The 1851 treaty between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the British Crown, as well as our connection as peoples of the Pacific, culminates a significant relationship between Aotearoa (New Zealand) citizens and Hawai‘i. As a wahine Māori and citizen of Aotearoa, I felt compelled to make a stand in solidarity with our tuakana of Hawai‘i in calling for an end to the continued illegal occupation of these ancestral lands. This article presents a media release and the official complaint I filed with the attorney general of Aotearoa alleging war crimes by the illegal occupiers of Hawai‘i, the US government. It concludes with the woefully inadequate response from the government of Aotearoa.