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- ↑ "COURT FINDS TWO FORMER SAMOAN MINISTERS GUILTY OF ASSASSINATION". Pacific Islands Report. 13 April 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ↑ "Two former Samoan ministers sentenced to die for murdering rival". Independent (UK). 15 August 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ↑ "SAMOA'S MALIETOA COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF EX-MINISTERS TO LIFE IN PRISON". Pacific Islands Report. 12 May 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ↑ "Disgraced ex-minister gets parole". Samoa Observer. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
- ↑ talamua.com