Amrozi, Imam Samudra, Ali Gufron

July 27th, 2006, in News, by Patung

Those convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings are scheduled to be executed on 22nd August. Last minute appeals may however delay this.

The office of the Attorney General, Abdul Rahman Saleh, said that the three men, Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Gufron, alias Mukhlas convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings in which over 200 people died, would be executed at the island jail of Nusakambangan, off the south coast of Central Java, on the 22nd August. The men are currently housed there.

Amrozi
Amrozi.

Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh also said that it would take a formal request for the review to postpone the scheduled execution. He added that the execution date had been set by the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office in Bali. As at time of writing no such request had been received although it appears that lawyers for one of the men, Amrozi, are attempting to have any review of their client’s case moved from Bali to Jakarta.

While the Jakarta Post reports that lawyers for three jihadist militants do now say that they will file a final appeal with the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the men said they planned to file the final appeal, known as a case review, with the Supreme Court.

Wiranan, a lawyer from the Muslim Defence Team, did not reveal the basis of the appeal, but other lawyers defending the men have said they plan to challenge the verdict on the grounds they were convicted of violating a law passed after the Bali attacks.

They argued that Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra could not be executed because the retroactive principle in the 2003 Anti-Terror Law used to charge them had been annulled by the Constitutional Court, said Fahmi Bachmid.

Therefore, the executions cannot be carried out and the plan is legally questionable.

He confirmed that the three men would soon file a request for the Supreme Court to review the case.

The three have said they have no fear of death and want the punishment to be carried out. They also said they would not seek clemency from the President, a process that can take several years. The families of the three men are also entitled to file an appeal but have long indicated they have no intention of doing so (No Clemency Sought for Bali Bombers, 2006-04-12.).

A Mother’s Love - 28th July

The mother of Imam Samudra, Embay Badriyah, has asked to join her son in front of the firing squad on 22nd August. Samudra’s lawyer, Agus Setyawan, explained:

A few days ago she asked whether she could be shot like her son.
(Beberapa hari lalu, Embay yang biasa dipanggil Ummi menyampaikan permintaan, apa bisa dia ditembak mati juga seperti putranya.)

Agus says that Samudra’s mother feels that her son has not received justice in that he was convicted under a retro-actively acting law.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Mahendradata, the head of the Muslim Defence Team, the group of lawyers representing the three condemned men, says that the Attorney General’s office is trying to hurry the carrying out of the executions. Mahendradata says he has already filed a case review request on his clients’ behalf. This will likely see the postponing of the executions.

Tags: Terrorism

7 Comments on “Amrozi, Imam Samudra, Ali Gufron”

O. Bule Says:
July 28th, 2006 at 11:17 am
The sooner these scum are killed, the better. I volunteer to be the hangman.

O. Bule
Fanglong Says:
July 29th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Paradoxes : the three want to be “freed” (into Firdaus) at the quickest, but the guys who manipulate them would like screwing our ears some more. Death sentence is violence. Bombing is violence. Everyone knows what a vicious circle is, but apparently no-one cares. Mr O. Bule, I’d like to be the banana skin on which you’ll slip when approaching the scumballs to hang’em ! No violence, never, under no condition at all ! It’s so clear ! So simple !
As-salaam ‘alaykum !
Andrew Says:
August 14th, 2006 at 2:23 am
They have a place ready in hell, regardless of they way they die.
Lee Says:
August 18th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
No, I don’t believe in the death penalty. Jail him for the term of his natural life - much better punishment. He will have time to think about his crime.
zalech Says:
August 20th, 2006 at 3:40 am
I just wonder about the mother of the imam, who wants to face a dead squad with here son, saying he is innocent and no justice being done to him. Hey mama, how about the other mothers of over 200 people who have been murdered by your son? Are you saying that is okay if your son murders other people, and that is just? No prayer to your god for those people? Why terrorizing others is so important in Muslim countries? There never was a single religion on the earth, and it will never be a single religion. I feel sad, that Islam is keeping Muslim people still in the stone age mentality and barbaric culture of spilling innocent blood to appease their ill ambition.

I wonder, if same procedure of Indonesian government of helping of attaining presidential clemency was also directed toward Mr Tibo and other people. I believe that taking life of human being for any cause or reason is wrong. Executing of the BalI killers is wrong. Killing people on BalI was also wrong. It is a paradox which need to be solved not by suicide bombings or executing these criminals. I do not know how to solve these problems. I believe that an institution, including a religion which promote killing in its own interest shall not be considered as a religious organization. It is just in simple terms an organized criminal organization. If they kill in the name of this or that, which could be the name of some higher power like god, or to kill in the name of selling some cocaine, opium, hashish, etc, there is not difference of the cause. All what counts here is the end result, kill another person. Another criminal act of murdering people. How this can be called a religion in whosoever name. If we all will embrace same ideology as the Islamist terrorist, we will have to kill each other to the last standing person. There will be no other outcome. What is the logic behind it?
Hassan Says:
August 21st, 2006 at 2:43 pm
andrew: have you contacted God to confirm their reservation in hell? are you talking in behalf of God now? I’m not defending Amrozi and co. but they must have a fair trial in the face of God, don’t you think?
AJS Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi Hassan,
For sure, I believe Amrozi, like the rest of us, will receive a fair judgement at the hands of the Almighty when the time comes.

I was very angered at the actions of the Bali bombers. For 2 reasons….
1. They committed a horrible criminal act. Many innocent people died. Including several friends and aquaintences of mine.
2. I was angered that they used the name of Almighty God to commit such terrible acts. I am not a Muslim, but after all there is only one God, so I felt offended by it too. Maybe the act was revenge for what the injustices they see in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere. I cannot condone or support that, but I do understand that humans feel anger and hate. I too felt similar emotions after the Bali bombs and the London bombs and the others…… but I believe that anger and thirst for revenge are human defects, not an instruction from the Almighty. What do you think?
I am also mystified why there was no public outpouring of condemnation from the good Muslims of the world for such horrible violence. These people are damaging the name of a Holy Faith followed by hundreds of millions of people across the world.
I remember a couple of years ago a newspaper in Denmark foolishly published some rather tasteless and childish cartoons. THere were demonstrations all over the place calling for a terrible things to happen to them as punishment. But when other people like Amrozi commit mass murder in the name of God, there is a strange and eerie silence….I don’t understand. I really dont. If anyone can help me undrstand more, I would be very grateful.

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