The Australian, US, and many governments expressed its disappointment that the sentence was too short; in the outcome, Bashir was freed 14 June 2006 having served less than 26 months for his conspiracy,[31] and on 21 December 2006, Bashir's conviction was overturned by Indonesia's Supreme Court. MCEWAN: Over time, we had different police disciplines [in Bali]. I couldn't tell you if they are male or female, child or whatever. David Fyfe was very nearly number 203. And likewise, when they were following the instructions on how to build the bomb in the van, how to put the explosives in, how to connect the initiation system and how to construct the back of the van, the way it was constructed was not ideal, I guess, is the best word I'm prepared to use. DEWA KETUT RUDITAWIDYA PUTRA (nickname Deci), Indonesian survivor:We werestuck [in acar] in atraffic jamand our position was right in front of the Sari Club's door. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. David was on a trip with his football team when the devices exploded in the tourist district of Kuta, killing 202 people. Many severely injured Australians did survive, due to early interventions, but not everyone made it and Dr Pethick had a critical role in speaking with their families at that dark time. On arrival, the army medical team, which included intensivists and a surgeon, furthered the triage process, performed emergency escharotomies and administered much needed analgesia. Christine Anu sang The Lighthouse by toxtwo at the opening ceremony. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". A Gannett Company. ", He reacted almost instantly. [22], The organization suspected of responsibility for the bombing was Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist group allegedly led by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. People [were] staggering out of that. 'It's just gouging': Are property investors the solution to Australia's rental crisis? An off duty Australian serviceman assisted in identifying where all Australian and foreign casualties were located in the sprawling hospital wards. The film was directed by Enison Sinaro and written by Wong Wai Leng and Andy Logam-Tan. The company also provided significant financial support for RPH. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/what-happened-october-12-2002-in-the-bali-bombing/101482382, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app. Other Australian victims were honored in a video shown on the stadium's video screens before the game, with the attendees including Melbourne players Steven Febey and Steven Armstrong, who were both injured in the blast, and representatives from five Australian rules football clubs who lost players in the attacks were presented to the crowd. He was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment. Synergy chief executive David Fyfe survived the Bali bombings 20 years ago and says the incident has since impacted his role as a leader. So I had to walk away from those girls and leave them to die. These laws were used by the prosecution instead of existing criminal laws as they allowed the death penalty to be imposed and lowered certain evidentiary restrictions. DE HAART:There's no such thing as closure. The second lot were bleeding and had their clothes blown off them. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". Two bombs went off in Jalan Legian shortly after 11pm. David Fyfe was featured in 2022 in the Energy section. My mum couldn't believe I was there that night. Following this decision, charges related to the bombings against Idris, who had confessed to participating in the attacks to the police and court, were dismissed. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Is the world facing Thermobaric Terrorism? Please try again later. But the Attorney General's office said on 1 November the execution was "very close. We had a quick swim, got ready, went to a place for dinner and then made our way to the Sari Club. I wasn't involved in that part of it, but I know a lot of my colleagues that I've spoken to during the investigation and since were travelling to all different parts of Indonesia at the time to suspected bomb-making or actual bomb-making factories. THIOLINA F MARAPAUNG,Indonesian survivor andhead of the Bali Bombing Victims' Association, Isana Dewata Foundation: My two friends suggested [we] drive past [Jalan] Legian because it was Saturday night [and we wanted] to check out how Kuta was during night time. SHANE HAMMING,an explosives specialist with the AFP's Australian bomb data centrewho was sent to Bali: I first heard about [the bombing] on the news on the Sunday, I think. I told the family I'd be in touch and I [left]. They were given some instructions on how to mix the components of the explosive and they did the best they could, I guess. He came close to losing both legs. When images of the Bali bombings flashed on the television in his ward, terror and pain and tragedy distilled and concentrated on a small screen, he stopped hospital staff from changing the channel. Get the inside scoop on every news story and connect with WAs biggest leaders. David Fyfe, Synergy's head of commercial and its acting chief executive, succeeds Jason Waters, who took the helm of the Perth Mint last month. The SCC also maintains a permanent memorial to the players it lost inside the club's main lounge. DECI: People were clapping because they thought there was a party in Paddy's. Three terrorists were executed. The book, Ketika Nurani Bicara (When Conscience Speaks), tells about the bombing from the perspective of three people: a volunteer who helped evacuate a bombing victim who lost her husband in the blast; a victim who struggled to raise her children without her husband; and a terrorist who regrets his involvement in the bombing.[60]. I got on with it. After a. That was when a van in the street containing the second bomb is believed to have gone off outside the Sari Club. In 2022 (20 years after the incident), the Australian-Indonesian historical drama Bali 2002, aired on Stan and Nine Network. Imron and Idris dropped the motorbike at a place where it eventually attracted the attention of the caretaker. The Pentagon has announced plans to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at Guantnamo Bay who are suspected of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.. After an unexplained delay . I didn't receive help right away Finally a nurse brought me a wheelchair and told me to sit [and] she wheeled me inside. My left leg, it was at right angles, and my right foot, my toes were missing. But my instincts fight or flight kicked in and I just started crawling and then I crawled to the front of the club. I had been exposed to dead people before as part of my duty, but never more than sort of two or three [at] a time. The attacks claimed the lives of 202 people, including 88 Australians and put some UWA Medical School graduates to the test. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. I remember them trying to keep us cool and trying to attend to our wounds and I had my first amputation in Bali on that left leg above my ankle and on my right foot, on my toes. I've never smelled that before. The whole nightclub was engulfed in flames. Imron used the motorbike to plant the small bomb outside the U.S. Consulate. Transaction records, directors wealth, remuneration data and network activity. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron were executed by firing squad after midnight on 9 November 2008 (West Indonesian time). Doctors were forced to perform a life-saving, deep-to-the-bone fasciotomy (cutting connective body tissue) in his leg to ease pressure while he was unconscious in Bali. DE HAART: I guess I was in a state of shock and this guy came up and he shoved a girl in my arms and said 'look after her' and he turned around and went back into the Sari Club. "I just kept setting myself small goals," he said. It's a night those who survived will never forget, Jacinda Ardern has announced she will not be seeking re-election and her term as New Zealand's prime minister will end February 7, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news, For the latestflood and weather warnings, search onABC Emergency, Keep across all the live scores and results from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Engineer David Fyfe was inside Paddy's Bar when the first bomb went off. "For me it was an easy way out. Serious but stable condition. Then I was on a stretcher on a tarmac there in Denpasar, and we're on a Hercules jet bound for Darwin. He is humble about the part his willpower and tenacity played in his recovery. After it was announced, Polri monitored the sudden flurry of communications among numbers listed in Amrozi's telephone before the calls abruptly ceased. Twenty years since the Bali Bombings is a time of reflection for people in the WA community who were directly impacted by the horrific events of October 2002, including members of the UWA community. JONES: Almost everyone involved in the Bali bombings in 2002 [were eventually] linked to the branch of Jemaah islamiah [JI] that was based in Malaysia, not in Indonesia. Two decades on, Fiona Wood is still exploring revolutionary burns treatments - including the role of the mind in recovery. Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, told police that he was the head of one of Jemaah Islamiyah's four cells and had ordered the Bali bombings. There were people bleeding everywhere, or people had their clothes blown off and they're trying to jump over walls to get out. Mr Fyfes right leg was amputated in the aftermath of the bombings in October 2002 that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians. Stuart Anstee, 23 (from Launceston) glass fragments in throat and back removed yesterday at Royal Darwin Hospital. I can remember the filthy stench of chloride and a napalm smell. A lot of the state jurisdictions have experience in smaller disaster victim identification investigations, but no-one had ever done anything of this sort of scale. I choose not to live in the past, but to live in the now.. On the fourth anniversary of the bombings Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall unveiled a memorial in London, at the rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building, facing St. James's Park. Mr Fyfe is a non-executive director of the Fiona Wood Foundation, a 2002 Bali bombing survivor, and regularly speaks at events in Western Australia. I don't know why you would expect them to look different from a normal human. The pair had been in the Sari Club, which was wrecked by the bigger secondary blast, just two drinks earlier. We plan on paying our respects on the day and then well have a good time, he said. It has different religious traditions, a whole range of different traditions [and]the people are different. [5] However, former FBI agent Ali Soufan confirmed in his book, The Black Banners, that al-Qaeda did in fact finance the attack. [41] In the final moment, there was no remorse or repentance, and they shouted: Allahu Akbar, or "God is great! Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. I turned around the corner. It's important to realise that neither of these were AFP jurisdiction. Among those killed at Paddy's Irish Bar and the nearby Sari Club were. That hand took me out and put me down. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. THIOLINA: I'm not sure how long I [was] passed out. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. All of my subsequent deployments were on the disaster victim identification side. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Idris dialed the number of the Nokia to detonate the bomb at the Consulate. And then as I got closer, the sights got worse. Now the expat has recalled the moment he was blown up in a documentary for Australian television. The first bomber headed to Paddy's Pub. On 2 September, Bashir was acquitted of treason but convicted of lesser charges and sentenced to a prison term of four years. It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. So I did the only thing I could do and that was to crawl away from the heat. "Everybody's situation is their situation," Mr Fyfe said. I couldn't see anything, so I could only feel with my hands. And, on the right-hand side, Paddy's Bar was in flames. Husband and wife Richard[16] and Gilana Poore,[17] who organized a makeshift triage area in the Bounty Hotel's reception area, were both honored with an OAM. THIOLINA: After [being turned away from one hospital] an ambulance took me to the army hospital in Denpasar. We're talking not a short amount of time after the blast. * One Australian is among four victims receiving treatment at Singapore General Hospital. On the northern side of Coogee Beach a memorial to the Bali bombing victims comprises three interlocking bronze shapes that have an abstract resemblance to three bowed figures supporting each other. The door on the driver's seat was open, so I got out from there. There are also some graffiti memorials in memory of the dead. CSABI: I remember being put in the back of a ute and I'd been on a sheet of iron. Every time I opened the wardrobe I would cry. There would be no dwelling on the terrorists who had committed the atrocity. DE HAART:I just grabbed anyone I could see in front of me and [helped] them out. DECI: When we got [to Sanglah Hospital], it was already so crowded, victims were everywhere. He has held executive roles in operations, commercial sales, asset management, and business development. Idris then rode the motorbike as Imron drove two suicide bombers in the Mitsubishi to the nightclub district in Kuta. Just past midnight on 9 November 2008, the three convicted of carrying out the bombings (Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron) were executed by a firing squad. Mr Fyfe has nothing but praise for those who helped him; the doctors, nurses, and the prosthetic expert who fitted him with a new leg. journalism. On 15 August, Riduan Isamuddin, generally known as Hambali, described as the operational chief of Jemaah Islamiyah was arrested in Ayutthaya, Thailand, the old capital one hour's drive north of Bangkok. David Fyfe was in a bar when three terrorist bombs rocked the holiday resort in October 2002. She has travelled with him, along with Mr Cowdery and other former Perth City teammates, to Bali for the 20th anniversary of the bombings. 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