The petition, led by youth advocates Josiah Tualamali’i and Benji Timu, contained more than 7,000 signatures nationwide.
Before the passing of the petition, Timu told members of Parliament who were in attendance he was involved in the petition because he loved Pacific people.
“Right now, a lot of our people don’t want to talk about it, but now you have a new generation of Pacific people that understand this part of the history, which we are only finding out about as we are adults.
