Rounding off a harrowing day of coverage following the executions of Bali Nine members Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran—along with 6 others yesterday morning—came a stirring segment from The Project‘s Waleed Aly on the Channel 10 program last night.
The segment, titled ‘The Five Times Andrew and Myuran Were Let Down’ has been making the rounds online since airing, as Waleed Aly succinctly sums up the injustices afforded to Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. At a time where debate surrounding the duo’s fate is rife, Waleed Aly cuts through the difficult-to-navigate rhetoric of drug trafficking and the death penalty, presenting the significant handful of missteps involved in the Bali Nine case.
The AFP‘s inherent role in handing over the Bali Nine ring to Indonesian authorities (“The AFP have never explained this”), the corruption in the Indonesian judicial system, President Joko Widodo‘s hard-lined stance (“He cared more about his image than the facts of the case”), Tony Abbott‘s statement that caused mass backlash in Indonesia (“This is a moment I’m sure Tony Abbott regrets”), and the denial of Chan and Sukumaran’s preferred spiritual guides (which were eventually reinstated at the eleventh hour) were the five points of Waleed Aly’s eloquent smackdown, which you can watch below.
The five times Andrew and Myuran were let down #TheProjectTV http://t.co/tTZixs8TjZ
— The Project (@theprojecttv) April 29, 2015
