bali 9  > 2005 > 9 aussies caught smuggling drugs in indonesia > 2 of them were scapegoated and singled out as the ringleaders and executed > one dead from cancer, one more had sentence commuted > remaining 5 might have their sentences finally commuted soon the thing with this is the two that were executed were completely victims of politics. indonesia had elected a hardliner on the death penalty, except when he finally made it to office he commuted the sentences of hundreds of indonesians on death row, but left the foreigners to die because he still needed fodder to make an example of. complete joke of a country even more absurd is the fact that the australian police, working off a tip from one of the smugglers fathers, were the ones who tipped off indonesia to the drug smuggling, knowing that the aussies were liable to get the death penalty
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