In what may be the last week of his life Andrew Chan has a powerful message for all Australians.
His video diary, shown last night on the Seven Network’s Sunday Night showed the raw emotions of a young man in a place that most of us couldn’t ever imagine – on the brink of losing his life.
“Um my name is Andrew Chan. ” he said in the video diary just hours after he watched six other inmates be taken for execution by firing squad on January 18.
“It is a day, pretty much a few hours after the execution, six innocent lives…… I guess what runs through my head is how precious life really is, that all we can do about the moment we live for, I guess sometimes you kind of gotta think what does it take to get a second chance?
“People get second chances within their lives on the outside but how much can you get when you’re a convicted criminal?”
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To the President of Indonesia, We live in a civilised society and we have the resources to stop drug trafficking but no one including yourself has the right to play God and take someones life. Spare Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's lives as they can serve there punishment in prison in Australia instead. We are humans and people do make mistakes.
We live in a 'civilised society', that's the luxury of a developed, affluent society. Capital punishment can be replaced with social programs, rehabilitation etc as we can afford it. I don't think thats the case with emerging, third world countries, with huge populations. Their resources simply don't stretch that far, and there are more pressing demands for their limited funds.
Indonesia has the right to their sovereignty, to decide their laws, laws which we abolished some sixty years ago.
They have a increasing drug problem in Indonesia, they are not taking a soft approach to it. The billboard warnings on the airport approaches are clear 'Death to drug traffickers'. They do not say 'Death to drug traffickers, but Australians exempted'.
its not simple mistakes. its high level crime. dont use sweet talk about this. 20.000 people die in indonesia because of drugs. just dont do the crime if you cant do the time. they know the law in Indonesia but they still play the luck here. its not play god. its written in Indonesia Law. And the drug smuggler is not human.
That is absolute ignorance. We are all humans on this planet and it is inevitable that people are going to make mistakes, some on a greater scale and do things that they should not. Indonesia is killing these men to prove a point in the most inhumane manner. Its disgusting! An absolute fucking disgrace. Indonesia who is corrupt and kills their own citizens have the nerve to KILL two Australian men for something they did over 10 years ago after sitting in their prison. People like you sit there "Don't do the crime if you cant do the time". That is sickening. They are clearly rehabilitated and deserved a second chance. Australia should have done more, and should cut all ties with them because they just shitted on Australia.
Chan was supervising two groups of mules (at a distance and not carrying drugs himself) to ensure the safe passage of the drugs, not the mules. Cynically, you could observe that if one group was apprehended, the other group would have made it with several kilos of heroin into Australia. The first group would just have been collateral damage, regrettable but expendable.
Andrew Chan didn't just waste his life, he wasted the lives of seven others. A kid of 18, a kid of 19...etc. All so he could be a big shot, crime czar.
I don't see him accepting responsibility for the situation that he put others in, mitigating their involvement and the sentences they drew.
They did not deserve death. How is that okay. They are rehabilitated. No one deserves their final moments to be awaiting a bullet to the heart. What was death going to achieve???/ they clearly were not going to offend again stuck behind bars. What was the point. I will tell you. Indonesia covering up that they are less corrupt than they really are. They don't care how they achieve that status. Why bother Indonesia, how about looking at your own laws and government. That will aid in fixing the problem, as opposed to killing two men. No one on this planet has the right to take another live.