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Bali bombers killed by firing squad
Three men sentenced to death for a deadly bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali in 2002 have been executed, local media have reported.
Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, who is also referred to as Ali Ghufron, and Imam Samudra, 38, were killed on Saturday by firing squad on the prison island of Nusakambangan in central Java, TV One quoted an unnamed official source as saying.
The government has not officially confirmed the executions.
The twin bomb attacks on Bali nightclubs in October 2002 killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists including 88 Australians.
Step Vaessen, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tenggulun, east Java, said that the men's execution showed that the Indonesian government "wants to show they are serious on their fight against terrorism".
"The Bali bombers, who have always said they were happy to die as martyrs, have tried endlessly to postpone their execution with several appeals, even up to the constitutional court," she said.
"They have tried to escape the firing squad because they said that was against their human rights and they wanted to be beheaded instead. But they lost all appeals."
Two days ago the families of the men sent a letter to the Indonesian president to ask to for the execution to be delayed.
english.aljazeera.net
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