It's Time to Die for Bali bombers

by Cindy Wockner in Jakarta

July 27, 2008 12:00am

AUTHORITIES are scouting for execution sites for the Bali bombers' imminent date with firing squads. Prosecutors this week went to Nusa Kambangan Island - where smiling assassin Amrozi, his older brother Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are jailed - to look for a suitable site.
The trio, found guilty of involvement in the 2002 bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, are held in maximum security cells.

Bali's chief prosecutor Dewa Putu Alit Adnyna has reiterated the Indonesian Attorney-General wants the trio executed before the beginning of the Holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which begins about September 1. One of the prosecutors inspecting execution sites was Ida Bagus Wiswantanu - who handled Schapelle Corby's case. He said the execution site was a secret. But it is understood it will be in the south of Nusa Kambangan Island, off central Java.

It is believed to be close to the place where, in late June, two Nigerian drug traffickers were tied to poles late at night and shot dead at the same time. Nusa Kambangan Island, just off the coast of Cilacap, has five jails and an oil refinery. The island is heavily wooded and the execution site is close to a road so vehicles can get in and out. Indonesia's Attorney-General, Hendarman Supandji, said he hoped the executions would be before Ramadan.
Mr Adnyna yesterday said he was doing everything to meet the time frame.

The Supreme Court recently announced the bombers had exhausted all avenues of appeal.
Lawyers for the men intend to lodge a complaint about the form of the appeal denial.
"If that is the decision, it (a court clerk's letter) did not explain who is the judge and the date the decision was made is not there also," lawyer Mahendradatta said.

Mahendradatta said the lawyers would write to the Supreme Court tomorrow and ask to see an official court decision made by judges. He said executions should be done according to the due process of law. The three firing squads will be formed by Brimob, the jail's paramilitary police squad. The three men will be executed simultaneously by firing squads of 12 men each. In each squad, up to six men will have live rounds and the rest will fire blanks.
In the past six weeks Indonesia has executed six people, drug dealers and murderers.
By law, executions must not be seen by any member of the public.

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