Posted on 10/12/2005 3:42:11 AM PDT by Fair Go
Protesters storm bombers' jail by Benito Lopulalan in Denpasar 12oct05
SOME 1000 protesters stormed a prison where convicted Bali bombers are being held, shouting for their deaths, on the third anniversary of the attacks on the Indonesian island.
The angry demonstrators at Denpasar's Kerobokan jail managed to remove the prison's main steel door from its hinges but police stopped them getting inside, an AFP correspondent reported today. "Kill Amrozi, kill Amrozi!" the crowd yelled, referring to one of three people sentenced to death by firing squad for the 2002 nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people and dealt tourism on the island a heavy blow.
Amrozi and the other two on death row, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas, had been transferred the previous day to a high-security island prison off neighbouring Java island following earlier angry protests.
Passions are running high following repeat bombings earlier this month which killed 20 people plus three suicide attackers on the island.
Three rows of police armed with batons and shields stood outside the prison's main entrance. Two truckloads of reinforcements arrived later, bringing the police strength to an estimated 300. But they did not immediately try to break up the crowd.
"If you move more, we will fight," one protester yelled, as the police line began moving forward. It stopped at the front boundary line of the prison grounds.
Denpasar police chief Dewa Parsana called on the shouting and drum-beating crowd to disperse to no avail.
One demonstrator tied a banner on the prison wall reading: "Hello SBY (Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono). Kill the person who has hurt Bali (Amrozi)."
Taxi driver Ketut Seharta, 50, said:" I have been impoverished by the Bali attack. Amrozi and his like have killed all the businesses in Bali.
"Kill Amrozi now, in front of all Balinese. I don't like terrorists," Mr Seharta said.
Endra, 30, expressed anger that Amrozi had been moved.
"We feel Amrozi is being protected by the Government. Balinese are very angry," he said.
Amrozi was dubbed the "smiling bomber" for his courtroom demeanour, which particularly enraged the residents of Bali, a Hindu enclave in mainly Muslim Indonesia.
Some members of the crowd said they had received an anonymous mobile phone message about four days ago, calling on people to come to the jail to demand the execution of the Bali bombers.
"I knew of the protest from my friends but what is important is that I came here of my own free will," said Arya, a motorcycle taxi driver.
"What does the head of the jail want? Without any explanation, he secretly moved Amrozi away."
Would've loved to see them get hold of that bomber.
I expect sooner or later a kamikaze attack on the prison...
I expect sooner or later that we will see a kamikaze attack on the prison... (I'm not asking anyone to do it)
I hope they brought plenty of boars with them... to stuff them up their behinds, head first. Suffocation by pig would be an appropriate way for them to go.
This attack was on the prison. Soon the people of Bali will see that their fight is with Islamics and then anything Islamic will get hanged. Then maybe Islamics will see that fundamentalists are dangerous and need to be stopped. Terrorism will not be stopped until the people rise to the occasion. Europeans should start realising this also, before they are outnumbered.
Have ANY terrorists been convicted AND executed ANYWHERE?
If we could see terrorists being publicly executed I think it would slow down the recruitment of replacements.
More precisely, it is the Hindu culture of Bali and the western lifestyles of tourists that are an insult to Islam. Bali is, in many ways, the perfect battlefield between Islam and the non-muslim world (both Hindu and Western). It is a Hindu outpost (culturally and artistically rich, holding females in high esteem) in the most populous Muslim country in the world, and is a favorite vacation spot for bikini clad westerners.
Bali is a thorn in the side of Indonesia...an insult to the brutality and misogyny and artless repression that is innately Islam.
Already too late in some cases.
If they have its been a very quiet execution. So far they just jail them for a while then turn them loose.
I am not betting saddam will be executed. It would be fun to see the Las Vegas line on whether or not he gets executed. Right now I would say his chances are 50/50.
I wouldn't be disappointed if it happened.
Very well said.
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