Defiant to the Last

The Denpasar District Court has sentenced Imam Samudra to death after finding him guilty of masterminding both the Bali and Batam bombings.

September 16, 2003

IN an emotional reading, Justice Ifa Sudewi quoted verses from the Islamic Qur'an and the Hindu Vedas stressing the importance of unity and humanitarian behaviour. Sudewi then gave an emotional rendering of lines from a poem written by Taufiq Ismail titled Appeal for Peace: "And, together with violence and the threat [of violence] throughout various nations, how deep is the meaning of longing, for humans who fell in righteousness, and were will

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