Mob storms Bali jail to demand immediate execution of bombers

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Mob storms Bali jail to demand immediate execution of bombers
By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent
Published: 13 October 2005

Balinese anger and grief boiled over when 500 people stormed the island's main prison and demanded the immediate execution of three men on death row for their roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings.

The protest yesterday - mounted on the third anniversary of those attacks, which killed 202 people - was swiftly defused. But it illustrated the public mood on the Indonesian island, where a second wave of bombings 12 days ago left 23 people dead, dealing another blow to the vital tourist industry.

As the anniversary was marked in Bali and in Australia, which lost 88 of its nationals, demonstrators marched on Kerobokan jail in the capital, Denpasar. They destroyed part of a concrete wall and removed the main steel door from its hinges.

"Kill Amrozi!" the crowd yelled, referring to one of the 2002 ringleaders. "Give us back our peaceful Bali." Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, and his two fellow plotters, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas, have yet to face the firing squad, as their appeals process has not run its course. Indeed, they are no longer in Kerobokan, having been transferred to a high-security prison in Java on Tuesday for their own safety.

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