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Bombers clemency call

byStaff writers
10 August 2008 - Updated on 16 March 2021
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BRISBANE archdiocese’s Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has appealed for the lives of the Bali Bombers who may soon be executed.

The commission’s executive officer Peter Arndt said this action was consistent with the commission’s commitment to the Church’s teaching on the death penalty.

Mr Arndt said the appeal should in no way be seen as minimising the seriousness of the violence perpetrated by the bombers or the enormous personal pain and loss their actions had caused.

“We condemn the actions of the bombers as a gross violation of the dignity and rights of the victims of the bombing of nightclubs in Bali in 2002,” he said.

“Those who have lost family members and who live with injury and disability because of the bombings are entitled to on-going government and community compassion and support in their efforts to deal with their loss and suffering.

“Those responsible for this crime deserve the most serious penalty, but this should fall short of the death penalty.”

Mr Arndt said the commission had campaigned for the universal abolition of the death penalty around the world and made the appeal as a matter of principle.

“We must be consistent in our defence of human life, even in the case of people who are responsible for the most appalling actions,” he said.

Mr Arndt said the commission would write to the Indonesian ambassador to Australia to ask him to convey its appeal to the Indonesian Government.

“We also ask Catholics to continue to send messages to their local MP, Senators, the Prime Minister and Government Ministers asking them to work for universal abolition of the death penalty,” he said.

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