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Three men involved in the 2002 bombing of two nightclubs in Bali were executed on Nov. 9 on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan off the coast of Java...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Tense After Terrorism Executions | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

...were planning to hide us away somewhere. But by chance, someone from the Catholic church in Buru heard we were going to be exiled and he spread the news. So when we were put ashore in the Madura Straits and found a vehicle there ready to take us to Nusakambangan, the notorious prison, the world was already watching. And as a result, with numerous foreign ambassadors as witnesses, the government was forced to give us our release papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Just Don't Believe in Her | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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