THE TELEGRAPH: Large crowds raised cries for holy war and vowed revenge at the burial of three men executed by the Indonesian government for their role in the 2003 Bali bombings.
Imam Samudra, 38, Amrozi, 47, and his brother Mukhlas, 48, were tied to posts on the prison island of Nusakambangan shortly after midnight. The trio refused the offer of blindfolds before being killed by a single shot to the heart. The bodies were then moved to home villages for burial.
Chaotic scenes climaxed as two crows flew over one ceremony, an event interpreted as God gathering the souls of the two brothers and taken as sign of rapture.
Relatives of British victims expressed dismay that the Indonesian authorities had portrayed the relatively minor figures as central to the plot that killed 202 people in co-ordinated suicide attacks in 2002. The three never expressed remorse, saying the bombings were meant to punish the U.S. and its Western allies for alleged atrocities in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"Justice is supposed to have two strands to it. One is to pay recompense for the crime committed and the other is a deterrent.," said Susanna Miller, whose brother Dan was killed in the attacks, amd a member of the UK Bali Bombings Victims' Group. "If you undermine the deterrent by effectively encouraging, allowing these people to be seen as martyrs and encouraging the Islamist cause then no it makes a mockery of justice.
"They didn't kill my brother. None of those three men were the bombers - they didn't make the bombs, they didn't set them off, they were secondary to the bombing plot and the most important person in relation to the plot is currently held in Guantanamo Bay." Bali Bombers Buried Amid Calls for Ringleaders to Be Tried >>> By Thomas Bell in Jakarta and Alastair Jamieson | November 10, 2008
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