Cry for Indonesia. When will justice be served?

I am absolutely outraged. Some of you may be aware of the atrocities committed in Indonesia in 2005 where three school girls were beheaded by Muslim militants while walking to their private Christian school in Poso. Notes were left next to their head warning of more attacks against Christian children. One of the girls heads was left at the local church.

Some of you are also aware that three Christian men were executed last year in Indonesia for “atrocities” which evidence did not support. The international community was outraged by the incident, especially considering evidence that the three men were tortured before being executed by the Indonesian government.

Now I feel sick to my stomach as the man accused of killing three innocent school girls by chopping off their heads with a machete has only been sentenced to 20 years in prison – the same sentence handed down to a young Aussie girl for traffic of marijuana. As reported by the BBC here.

I feel sick that the country I love is so corrupted by it’s fanatical leaders intent on destroying people who do not adhere to their version of belief. I want to shout. I demand justice be served. But the Indon government will not listen.

What can the international community do? Well I have some proposals:
The United Nations should review the death penalties handed down in Indonesia and decide whether:

• The trial was fair and evidence submitted was conclusive;



• International conventions applying to human rights and death penalty were applied;



• Were the executions carried out humanely?
  
  If any of the above three points were in breach, then swift and harsh penalties should be brought upon the justice administration system in that country.

I am anti-death penalty. I believe that God’s grace is endless and no man holds the right to take the life of another man. But I hold that the men accused of executing the three school girls must be sentenced in proportion to their crimes. In my opinion, life in solitary confinement, and the international Islamic community should prohibit the term “martyr” from being applied to these murderers.

The only people in this situation who deserve the title “Martyr” are the three precious school girls brutally murdered for there innocence and defencelessness in the name of Christ.

And God bless the Noviana and her family for the constant reminder of the brutality that they have suffered. May Christ fill their hearts and lives with peace abundantly.