Bali executions: Raji Sukumaran’s heartbreaking letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo

Myuran Sukumaran’s mother has written a heart-rending letter to Indonesian President Joko Wododo, the man who put her son to death.
Her letter was both sorrowful and exacting as the grief that overwhelmed Raji Sukumaran during the traumatic hours before her son’s execution were fortified by anger.”I am not sure where you were as the men you ordered to kill my son, and seven others pulled the trigger but I am sure you were far away,” she wrote.
“My son died knowing all his loved ones were close by waiting in a hotel room to hear the news that he had been executed.”
One of Myuran Sukumaran’s final words were in prayer for Indonesia, Ms Sukumaran revealed.
“This was the man you ordered to die,” she told to Mr Joko, who had refused to meet with the Sukumaran and Chan families before their sons were executed.
Ms Sukumaran’s letter wavered between appeals to Mr Joko’s affection for his own family – addressing him as “Leader of Indonesia and father of three children” – and rebuking him.”I watched as over the last four months you tortured him by making jokes about his life, making him guess the night he would be taken, openly discussing the way in which he would die, parading and humiliating our family,” she wrote.
“Your reasons for taking these [eight] lives had nothing to do with preventing drugs and everything to do with your politics.”
Ms Sukumaran asked Mr Joko to imagine his own child “tied to a post” as a firing squad readies to shoot them in the heart.