2007年VOA标准英语-Indonesian Supreme Court Denies Bali Bomber App

By Chad Bouchard
Jakarta
25 September 2007

Indonesia's highest court has rejected final appeals from two people convicted for a terrorist attack in Bali in October 2002 that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists. The court's decision means three terrorists will likely face the firing squad¹. As Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta, the news has brought some relief to survivors² and victims' families.

Three men are expected to face the firing squad for carrying out the deadly attack on October 12, 2002. One of them, Amrozi Nurhasyim, previously³ lost his appeal.

The court announced Tuesday that two separate panels have rejected appeals for Imam Samudra, and Ali Ghufron, also known as Mukhlas, saying their lawyers failed to produce new evidence.

Lawyers for all three men have stated the convicted will not seek a presidential pardon.

The growing likelihood of execution of the three men has cheered victims of the attacks.

Peter Hughes was severely⁴ injured in one of the blasts, and spent a month in a coma⁵. He remembers testifying at the bombing trials eight months after the incident.

"Sitting in the courtroom there with the five judges and one of the bombers⁶, Amrozi, and pretty much putting out my point across, the fact that for one, you didn't kill me. And the other was that due process is going to happen and hopefully by what I'm saying today was going to make sure that they need justice and justice needs to be had," said Hughes.

Plans to execute the three militants⁷ were put off last year. Lawyers claimed their clients had been unfairly tried under anti-terrorism laws introduced after the bombings.

Hughes says he feared that the bombers would be set free, citing allegations of graft⁸ within Indonesia's courts. He says the Supreme⁹ Court's decision to deny their appeals restores some of his faith in Indonesia's legal system.

"In some way I sort of know now that Indonesia's government has sort of put their foot down and they're about to do something which is a good thing," he said. "I'm not the aggressive type of person that wants to be angry. I think that's what these criminals want you to be. They want you to be angry and upset the rest of your life so you can die an angry person. But these guys haven't got to me yet."

No date for the executions has been set.

The three men have admitted to carrying out the attacks in Bali, saying that they wanted to punish the United States and its allies for alleged¹⁰ atrocities¹¹ in Afghanistan.

The Bali bombings and other attacks in Indonesia over the last few years have been linked to a Southeast Asian terror network, Jemaah Islamiah.

1 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

4 severely   

adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地

参考例句：

• He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
• He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。

5 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

6 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

8 graft   

n.移植，嫁接，艰苦工作，贪污；v.移植，嫁接

参考例句：

• I am having a skin graft on my arm soon.我马上就要接受手臂的皮肤移植手术。
• The minister became rich through graft.这位部长透过贪污受贿致富。

9 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

10 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

11 atrocities   

n.邪恶，暴行( atrocity的名词复数 )；滔天大罪

参考例句：

• They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》