executions go ahead.

[bluecat*dancing]

Sad news to wake up to.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-29/both-sides-of-politics-unite-to-condemn-bali-nine-executions/6...

[bluecat*dancing]

"Today we lost Myuran and Andrew. Our sons, our brothers. In the ten years since they were arrested, they did all they could to make amends, helping many others. They asked for mercy, but there was none. They were immensely grateful for all the support they received. We too, will be forever grateful."

[***super_nova***]

In a way i am glad it is over.  I am even more glad that the Filipino maid Mary Jane Veloso has been spared, and hope that means she will not be executed.

[bluecat*dancing]

She is a very lucky woman; lucky that the President of Indonesia did what the President of the Philipines had asked of him.

I can't get my head around how the families could hear the gunshots. How heartbreaking and cruel.

[lionrose.7]

I kept waking up last night thinking is it over yet, so sad for the families.

So happy the woman was spared.

[lionrose.7]

Now Joko can go back to Stealing and stripping West Papua and beating the **bleep** out of the locals 🙂

[raptor_rebooted]

i'm not glad its over.

i was hoping they would still be alive today.

so did they.  so did their families.

[bluecat*dancing]

He won't even allow international journo's in West Papua. There are world wide protests being held today. There is a demonstration planned in West Papua on May 1st, I think it is. The protesters will probably killed as per usual except that the world wil be watching. That's one good thing about social media.

[ladydeburg]

My deepest sympathy goes out to the families.

To go through that, to be helpless and  distraught, to say goodbye to a healthy son knowing that withinn hours they will be dead, unthinkable torture.

RIP.

[***super_nova***]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i'm not glad its over.

i was hoping they would still be alive today.

so did they.  so did their families.

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Well, that just was not going to happen.  Joko Widodo wants to show he is strong, and will not bow to foreign pressures. 

I am against death penalty, but I am also pragmatist, and there was no way there could have been any other outcome.  It is sad, these 2 were so young when they were arrested, but they were part of an organisation which is brutal and ruthless, and does not stop to think twice about killing somebody inconvenient.  They might have been only very lowly pawns at the time, but they should have been aware what they are part of.

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