I’D like to begin this letter by publicly thanking the many people who wrote or personally expressed to me their outrage over Don Farrell’s personal attacks. Please know how much your sentiments and support mean to me, my siblings and my mother.
As to Don Farrell, your decision to use my father’s memory against me in your desperate attempt to resuscitate Azmar’s dead application is callous and despicable. I find it unbelievable that you’re such an expert authority on my father’s development plans for Pagan, yet he didn’t even merit a small footnote in your own CNMI history book. Perhaps it’s just as well, knowing what I know now about how easily you will change the truth, and alter history, to fit your own agenda.
I suppose among your cadre of “experts” on my father’s dreams is the very man responsible for killing my father’s dreams — former Rep. Pedro Castro. Did he neglect to tell you what really happened the night of my father’s assassination? I’m sure he omitted the part where his poor battered wife ran to our house seeking refuge from her husband. Did he say how my father spent the last few hours of his life protecting her when Pedro sent the gunman demanding that my father surrender Pedro’s wife to him? I suppose he also neglected to mention that my mother also received a shotgun blast to her head, and struggled to remain conscious as she leaned on my five-year-old sister’s shoulders to walk to my uncle’s house to summon help.
Where in your “history” is the part where my 12-year-old brother’s pleas for the gunman to stop shooting was answered with a shotgun blast to his shoulder? Or how, but for the Grace of God, my seven-month-old baby brother and I would have perished and not survived our ordeal as hostages. And all my father’s efforts were for nothing, Mr. Farrell, as I saw with my own eyes the gunman hand Pedro’s wife over to Pedro where he was hiding in a secluded area.
Yes, thanks to Pedro Castro, Ken Moore’s “respected” friend and loyal Azmar lobbyist, we not only lost our father and sole support, but we also lost our home and the simple lifestyle we once lived on Pagan as my family was evacuated to Saipan the day after the shootings.

CINTA MATAGOLAI KAIPAT
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