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Indonesia executes three Bali bombers by firing squad
Sat Nov 8, 2008 4:50pm EST
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By Olivia Rondonuwu and Telly Nathalia
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia executed three Muslim militants for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people on the resort island, the attorney-general's office said on Sunday.
The three men -- Imam Samudra, Mukhlas and Amrozi -- were executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan island in central Java shortly after midnight, Jasman Pandjaitan, a spokesman for the attorney-general's office, told a news conference.
The two explosions on Bali's Kuta strip on October 12, 2002 -- one at Paddy's Bar and the other at the Sari Club -- killed 202 people including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens.
"We've waited a very long time for this and justice has finally been served," Australian Maria Kotronakis, who lost relatives in the bombings, told CNN by telephone from Sydney.
Georgia Lysaght, another Australian who lost her 33-year-old brother Scott in the attacks, told Reuters the executions would make little difference to how she felt.
"It isn't going to bring Scott back and it isn't going to change what happened," she said.
In an interview with Reuters late last year, the militants said their only regret was that some Muslims were killed.
Zakiah Darajad, Samudra's wife, had an open letter read by a relative at a news conference in Serang.
"(I) hope Allah gives the best to them and gives the worst to everyone that inflicted this unfair treatment," it said.
Officials had previously said that after the executions, the bombers' bodies would be taken for burial by helicopter to their respective home towns -- brothers Mukhlas and Amrozi to Lamongan in east Java, and Imam Samudra to Serang in west Java.
Security has been tight in Indonesia and some analysts say they feared a hardline backlash if the executions went ahead.
The Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) said the attacks were intended to deter foreigners as part of a drive to make Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, part of a larger Islamic caliphate.
Although there have been no major bomb attacks since 2005, Indonesia is considered at risk.
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