Leo Falcam warns “blood would run through the streets of Pohnpei” if Faichuk becomes a separate state.

What happened

Falcam, a former Pohnpei governor and later the fifth president, was speaking against a proposal to split Chuuk’s Faichuk region off as a separate state. Hanlon writes that a fifth state would have threatened the “very tenuous and fragile balance of power” among the four states.