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Uncertainty around compensation payments for the HMNZS Manawanui marine disaster in Samoa is growing, with the paramount chief of one of the affected villages questioning whether money from the New Zealand government should be distributed at all.
Atanoa Tusi Fa'afetai, the paramount chief of Maninoa village in the district of Si'umu, has repeatedly stated that the sum of SAT$10 million (NZD$6 million) paid by New Zealand to his government over its sunken navy vessel off the south coast of Upolu was insufficient. Other residents and matai (chiefs) also believe this.
Following details revealed in letters between the Samoa and New Zealand governments, Atanoa has sai
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