The Death Penalty

Australian Federal Police have serious attention before the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two drug dealers from Australia, in Nusakambangan, Central Java. Both were prisoner to death
will be brought before a firing squad in the near future. Chan and Sukumaran known as the leader of the group Australian drug dealers, dubbed the "Bali Nine".
They were arrested at Ngurah Rai airport internasinoal, Denpasar, Bali in 2005 while trying to smuggle 8
kilograms of heroin into Australia.
Ironic Chan, Sukumaran, and seven members the group was arrested by Indonesian police for information from the Australian federal police.
Australian federal police to this day continue to say that the way they handle the case, by submitting the Bali Nine group to police of Indonesia, it was the right action. Australian federal police commissioner, Andrew Colvin, said it "did not responsible for blood " Chan and Sukumaran. But the Australian public is angry continued to press the police.
They criticized the federal police decision not arrest  Chan and Sukumaran in Australia and the region instead submit them to Indonesia, which has long
had a policy of capital punishment for drug dealers.
A document released to the public thanks to the enactment
information disclosure laws in Australia shows that after "Bali Nine", precisely from 2009, Australian police policy requiring change the approval of the federal minister-level officials
before sharing information with law enforcement other countries.
The document was strengthened by the testimony of Bob Myers, a
lawyers who are friends with Lee Rush, the father of Scott Rush, one member of the Bali Nine now Indonesia in prison. Scott Rush was sentenced the death penalty in Indonesia, but in 2011 his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
Myers claims he is the one who gives
Australian police information about smuggling The heroin. He got the information from Lee Rush, which
told him that his son might be involved in the plan narcotics smuggling.
Myers federal police to request that the case was
dealt with quietly. Unfortunately he betrayed by federal police, which he said "is acting like cowboy "with indulgence that information to the police Indonesia and later washing his hands of the case.
"The public servants of our, assigned to
protect us, precisely by deliberately sacrificing their (Bali Nine group) with a reason to now they said, "regrets Myers.
But according to Damien Kingsbury, a political science lecturer and international relations at Deakin University, Melbourne,
there is the possibility of federal police intentionally 'sell' group Bali Nine to Indonesia to seek cooperation
Indonesian anti-terrorism police.
"Australian police were saving themselves. Clearly they realized there was a mistake, that there is a mistake in
this process. They still can not admit it, because it means they recognize their own mistakes, "says Kingsbury.
According to the federal police version, they handed Sukumaran, Chan and his colleagues to Indonesia because
worried the group would qualify arrival in Australia.

Source  : Reuter
Editor : dumasart