Bali bomber cried for Muslims but unrepentant for others
ONE of the three Bali bombers on death row in Indonesia has admitted crying for Muslim victims of his crime, but remained unrepentant for taking other lives.
Bali bombings mastermind Imam Samudra told an Indonesian television station he was "very sorry" and had wept because he had killed Muslims in the 2002 attack.
But he remained unrepentant for the other innocent lives he had ended, when he masterminded the twin nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.Indonesian television station Lativi has broadcast footage from a hidden camera, filmed this week when two journalists gained access to the tightly-guarded island prison at Nusakambangan island, by pretending to be relatives.
Family of the three - Samudra, the "smiling assassin" Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, and his brother Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas - visited the prison on Monday in what could be their last meeting with the death row convicts before their executions.
Samudra used the gathering to deliver a set of 10 final wishes to his family.
He asked his family to not cry out loud in front of his body.
"Nobody, neither family, nor parents, nor wife or children can cry out loud in front of my dead body," he told relatives.
"I asked you to buy the cheapest white cloth to cover my body, but it should be bought from clean money.
"And when I am dead, I don't want to be autopsied," he said.
The 10 wishes included a request he be buried in his home village in Serang, West Java and that his funeral be conducted by fellow muslims.
Meanwhile, Amrozi had been fasting for two consecutive months inside the prison to ask God's forgiveness for killing the Muslims, the program said.
"Tell the others that I am sorry for the Muslims that had become victims," Amrozi said.
But the terrorist, who was scorned for laughing at the carnage during his trial, said that the blasts had gone as planned, and only regretted there weren't more victims.
"When I was caught, no one in the coastal area knew what jihad was," he said.
"But right now, everyone is saying it, and I really feel it.
"This evidence was (shown) when I am still alive, (so) it would be even more when I die."
Bali prosecutors will soon visit the three to see if they will seek their final option of clemency from the president.
If they refuse, plans will be finalised for the execution, which will be carried out on the prison island within weeks.