Citaat door appie666:De vraag is in hoeverre je de regering daarvoor de schuld kunt geven. Ze hebben inderdaad verantwoordelijkheden wat betreft het beveiligen van hun onderdanen, maar de regering steunt dit soort acties echt niet. Sterker nog, als er een Moslimland is die vrij democratisch is, dan is het Indonesie wel.
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Op 17 augustus, de viering van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid, wordt vaak strafreductie en amnestie gegeven aan gevangenen. Echter, dit werd ook gedaan bij 12 mensen die gevangen zaten vanwege hun medewerking aan de bomaanslagen op Bali van 2002, wat een signaal kan zijn voor terroristen om door te gaan met hun terroristische acties. Een van de daders loopt inmiddels al op vrije voeten.
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It is traditional for the Indonesians to celebrate their independence from the Dutch in 1949 by granting sentence remission to convicts. This is all well and good but unfortunately the decision to cut the prison sentences of 12 of the 2002 Bali bombers is both wrong and dangerous. Three of the men found guilty of this terrorist crime are still awaiting the death sentence, which is expected to be carried out next month.
However the remission sends entirely the wrong signal to both the relatives of the 202 dead and the scores of maimed in the Bali bombing, both Indonesian and foreign tourists, and to the international community as a whole. Privately many Indonesian police and security men must be exasperated that after all their hard work in tracking down the perpetrators of this terrible crime, the punishments are being reduced. Indeed, thanks to this amnesty, one of the bombers has already walked free.
By refusing to separate the terrorists from the mass of convicts who expect the annual sentence reduction, providing they have been of good behavior, the Indonesian government might be seen to be downgrading the awful seriousness of these terror crimes.
Jakarta has committed itself to the fight against international terror and in the past government ministers have admitted that it is one of the major challenges facing the civilized world. So then why this extraordinary measure? Taken with the early release of Abu Bakr Bashir, the man widely believed by Indonesian police to be the mastermind behind the Bali bombings and other terror attacks in Indonesia, there is now a danger that the government will be seen as going soft on terrorism.
Over and above the diplomatic effect this will have, it is likely to have an impact on the country’s important tourism industry. Many visitors, particular Australians, made a point of continuing to travel to Bali and other tourist resorts, as a sign of solidarity with the Indonesian people. They refused to allow themselves to be cowed by terrorism and therefore deliver the ruthless men of violence a victory by disrupting an important element in the Indonesian economy. Sadly, there will be some among them who may now be wondering if their faith in the determination of the authorities has not in fact been misplaced.
There have been protests from officials in Jakarta that the 12 were all fairly low-level players in the Bali crime. There are no low-level players in a reprehensible, high-level terrorist crime. Every terrorist act must produce a rugged and uncompromising response. These people deserve no more mercy than that which they showed to their innocent victims. The sentences of the twelve terrorists ranged from five to 16 years. These will now be reduced, in some cases, by several months.
However minor the role these men played in the carnage, they do not deserve to have their sentences reduced by a nanosecond and it is particularly sad that on a happy day when Indonesia celebrated its independence, terrorists should have benefited in any way at all. "
19 August 2006
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