Pakistan, Sept. 17 -- There are certain facts buried deep within the annals of history that have been deliberately veiled, whether from motives of political expediency or to shield the interests of powerful parties, under such dense accumulations of silence that even the most diligent searcher after truth might labour long without bringing them fully to light. Yet time, that relentless uncoverer of hidden things, will not forever suffer such concealments to endure. Beneath these obscured realities often lie the misdeeds of individuals or of states-acts that were never meant for public scrutiny, or whose authors could not risk exposure. The history of Hawaii, that distant chain of islands now numbered among the American states, affords a s...