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Emotions flare at Kauai auction for land near Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s estate

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Video by Craig T. Kojima / ckojima@staradvertiser.com
About a dozen people with signs criticizing Mark Zuckerberg for his role in the sales proceedings assembled close to the courthouse steps before the auction on Friday.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Harvey Cohen, representing Carlos Andrade, leaned in to issue a bid to commissioner Patrick Childs during Friday’s auction in Lihue of four kuleana parcels located within 700 acres on Kauai owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Attorney Craig De Costa, right, in the dark suit, represented an opposing group led by Andrade’s cousin, Wayne Rapozo.

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

A kamaaina land battle involving four parcels within property owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Kauai came to a head Friday at a public auction in Lihue. Protesters held a prayer circle before the auction began and criticized what they regard as an unfair forced sale of lands that had been in the Rapozo family for 125 years.

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA /CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Healani Sonoda-Pale on Friday held a protest sign as she waited for the auction of kuleana lands on Mark Zuckerberg’s 700-acre estate at the Kauai Courthouse in Lihue.