Eight people were shot to death last night. All of them were foreign. Curiously the one person who was reprieved came from a country, whose people are racially and linguistically similar to Indonesia.
I believe that this mass execution was put on just for show. It was racist. That government was determined to execute some foreigners. I also remember a few decades ago, when Indonesia turned away the Vietnamese Boat People. That can also only be construed as racist.
It is sad that some of our richest and most powerful allies still maintain the savage and unjust practice of capital punishment. The civilised world could actually do something about this, if it could be prepared to leave financial interests out of the argument. My thought is that the next time one of these countries suffers a natural disaster, which it will in due course, then we should refuse any financial aid unless the country repeals capital punishment. If that country later re-introduces it, then we should freeze that countries assets.
I feel heartily sickened by last night's news. I sometimes wonder how far Mankind has evolved from the savages who walked the Earth in prehistoric times.
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