JAKARTA, Indonesia ? Three men convicted in the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people and spurred the Indonesian government to act more forcefully against Islamic militants were executed by firing squad early Sunday morning, the Indonesian attorney general?s office said.
Tied side by side to wooden posts, the bombers ? Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Ghufron ? were simultaneously shot in a field on a small prison island off western Java, officials said.
The executions brought an end to years of uncertainty about the fate of the three men, who were convicted in 2003 but whose deaths was put off many times because of government fears about a political or terrorist backlash.
A lawyer for the militants, Achmad Michdan, said in a telephone interview that supporters would demonstrate in the coming week against the executions but that they were now focused on the funerals, which were to take place as soon as the bodies were returned home on Sunday.
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