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Documentary, research team hope to solve mystery of 1924 Hanapepe Massacre

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Video by Rosemarie Bernardo
Winds whipped around the camera crew at the Hanapepe Filipino Cemetery on Kauai where historians, researchers and community members cautiously stepped around gravestones -- searching for the unmarked graves of 16 Filipino sugar plantation strikers killed in what has been dubbed the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924.
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                                Catherine Lo, left, and Stephanie Castillo at the Hanapepe Massacre documentary launch at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai.
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Catherine Lo, left, and Stephanie Castillo at the Hanapepe Massacre documentary launch at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai.

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                                At the launch of a documentary about the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924 at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai, Catherine Lo replaces a chip from a marker without a name dated the day of the massacre.
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At the launch of a documentary about the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924 at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai, Catherine Lo replaces a chip from a marker without a name dated the day of the massacre.

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                                <strong>Mike Miranda: </strong>
                                <em>He plans to present research at the biennial 2020 Filipino American National Historical Society conference in Waikiki </em>
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Mike Miranda:

He plans to present research at the biennial 2020 Filipino American National Historical Society conference in Waikiki

RON KOSEN / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER
                                Catherine Lo, left, and Stephanie Castillo at the Hanapepe Massacre documentary launch at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai.
RON KOSEN / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER
                                At the launch of a documentary about the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924 at the Filipino cemetery in Hanapepe, Kauai, Catherine Lo replaces a chip from a marker without a name dated the day of the massacre.
STAR-ADVERTISER
                                <strong>Mike Miranda: </strong>
                                <em>He plans to present research at the biennial 2020 Filipino American National Historical Society conference in Waikiki </em>