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Bali bombers to be executed early next month
Indonesia will execute three militants convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people in early November, a government official said on Friday.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:08 October 25, 2008
Jakarta: Indonesia will execute three militants convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people in early November, a government official said on Friday.
The men - Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Ghufron - were sentenced to death in 2003 for their roles in the nightclub bombings on the holiday island.
The attacks by the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) were intended to scare away foreigners as part of their drive to make Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, part of a larger Islamic caliphate.
"The Indonesian attorney general office decided that the plan to execute Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Ali Gufron will be conducted in early November 2008," Jasman Pandjaitan, spokesman for the attorney general's office, told reporters.
The executions will take place on the island of Nusakambangan, where the three men are being held in a maximum security prison, officials said.
"I don't know what to say," Sumarno, a relative of Amrozi and Mukhlas, wrote in a telephone text message to Reuters.
Metro TV station quoted Khozin, who is the brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, saying that he regretted the decision to hasten the execution process.
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