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Police, mass bustle as Bali bombers' bodies arrive home
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun, 11/09/2008 11:08 AM | National
Hundreds of Bali bombers' followers clashed with police officers as the bodies of Amrozi and Muklas a.k.a. Ali Gufron arrived at the family house in Tenggulun village in Lamongan, East Java on Sunday.The mass tried to pushed dozens of armed police officers away from the house as the bodies arrived at around 09:30 a.m.
A motorcade of an ambulance and a number of police cars brought the bodies, which was taken from the Nusakambangan Island prison by a helicopters.
Separately, in Serang, Banted, in western Java, the body of Imam Samudra was buried in Lopang Gede Cemetery at around 11 a.m.. Hundreds of sympathizers aslo participated in the funeral.
The three Islamic militants were shot by firing squad for the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists. (dre)
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Wanyu (not verified) — Thu, 11/13/2008 - 8:51am
I am really glad that SBY approved to sentenced to death all bali bombers.He sacraficed himself for his country. you are real President. But i think we have to be concerned the crowded places right now,We should be aware, they might attack again ( muslim brothers)
David, Jakarta (not verified) — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:17am
Under most circumstances I wouldn't be comfortable with the use of the death penalty. I'm pleased the death penalty was abolished in my home country, for example, and I wish it could be abolished here. But that is not possible.
If life imprisonment meant keeping the bombers in isolation in maximum security facilities then I'd rather they got life. The reality in Indonesia is that the bombers have had ready access to the mass media throughout their sentence and have been in regular contact with all their old associates. Executing them was the only way to prevent further loss of life due to their continued activities as terrorists. True, they couldn't actually plant any bombs themselves while in custody, but due to the state of the Indonesian prison service they were able to do virtually anything they wished short of that. They were free to spread their version of 'jihad' and to encourage and support other terrorists.
Lessons must be learned by the prison authorities.
KG (not verified) — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 10:25am
Silent Brain, maybe you should also flip the coin, and think about what if it was one of YOUR family members, like your child for example, who killed someone, I wonder if you would still have the same opinion of the death penalty, when its your own child being shot to death.
Alan (not verified) — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 9:40am
Families of some victims have been quite vocal in opposing this so I think that's a non argument.
I agree that this has simply made martyrs and would not provide a happy future sadly.
Di (not verified) — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 9:33am
Well it's about time, I only wish we could see the bodies to be certain they have been killed. They are cowards not heroes.
Dressnlatex — Mon, 11/10/2008 - 8:33am
Good riddance to these martyr wannabee. They should have been given to the United States Government and be placed in one of their secretive extradition program. They will be tortured, psychologically deprived of any hope of living and thrown into the luxurious Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba for more depravity of dignity and away from these onlookers and brain washed followers of extremist ideals.
Silent Brain (not verified) — Sun, 11/09/2008 - 8:12pm
Alex, if your family was murdered you might change your mind about the death penalty. Maybe you would kill them yourself if you could.
Justice (not verified) — Sun, 11/09/2008 - 12:50pm
So only "hundreds" to see them buried. Out of 200 Million Indonesians. That proves how unpopular these criminals were, as 99% of those "hundreds" would have just been "having a look". The sooner anyone else who promotes their hypocrital promotion of senseless violence gets arrested by the police the better. Let's start with Bashir! The example has been set. Follow them to the firing squad.
Alex Lester (not verified) — Sun, 11/09/2008 - 12:19pm
So now the murder of two hundred tourists has been avenged by the murder of three of the people responsible. When will we ever learn that one murder can not be compensated by another? Apart from playing into the terrorist's hands by making 'martyrs' of them, what makes us think that killing them will achieve anything? Why not let them spend the rest of their miserable lives rotting away on a prison island somewhere? By killing them we show that we are no better than they are. Murder is always wrong, be it sanctioned by terrorist ideology or by an elected government.
ALEX LESTER, BALI