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originally posted by: Raggedyman
Stop blaming the Indos, let the blame lay where it should, with the two men who tried to make a fast dollar, trading in misery
originally posted by: TechniXcality
we don't execute people for drugs or by a firing squad
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: crazyewok
That's not really the point here though..
I was and still of the opinion that if you break the law in a foreign country, then don't complain when you get caught.
BUT.
I find it hypocritical that Indonesia's hard line stance on executions isn't so hard line after all.
originally posted by: hellobruce
But Indonesia did, the convicted drug dealers knew the penalty but thought as they were "Australian" drug dealers it somehow did not apply to them! They thought wrong.
originally posted by: Chadwickus
I find it hypocritical that Indonesia's hard line stance on executions isn't so hard line after all.
The Balibo Five was a group of journalists for Australian television networks based in the town of Balibo in East Timor (then Portuguese Timor), where they were killed on 16 October 1975 during Indonesian incursions before the invasion.[1]
In 2007, an Australian coroner ruled that they had been deliberately killed by Indonesian special force soldiers.[2] The official Indonesian version is that the men were killed by cross-fire during the battle for the town. In the opinion of The Economist, the Australian government has never challenged this, as it was focused on developing relations with Indonesia
Indonesia and Australia are embroiled in a diplomatic row over allegations that people smugglers were bribed at sea by Australian officials to turn their boats around.
In a dramatic few days of revelations, the Indonesians have put on display tens of thousands of US dollars that it alleges Australia paid to smugglers in May and paraded a smuggler captain who detailed how Australian spies bribed him at sea to turn back.
Oh and it was the Aussie Police who told the Indonesians that those two criminals were smuggling drugs, those Aussie cops knew those smugglers would be killed.