Does Australia have double standards for Bali Nine duo?

Does Australia have double standards for Bali Nine duo?

Sydney: Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have eaten their last meals. Kissed their families for the last time. Inhaled their last breaths.They have been shot in front of an Indonesian firing squad.Australia has waged a protracted diplomatic battle to keep the two men alive but that battle has failed.
‘Not innocent’ : The plight of 31-year-old Chan and 34-year-old Sukumaran on death row in Indonesia has gripped Australia in recent months.Most here, including human rights groups and politicians of all persuasions, are appalled by the death penalty.And yet these were not innocent men, by any stretch of the imagination.Following a tip-off from the Australian Police, (yes, that’s right) they were convicted in Indonesia in 2006 of being the ringleaders of a gang trying to smuggle drugs out of Bali.And not a few spliffs or a bag of grass stuffed down their underpants
But 18lb (8.3kg) of heroin, worth more than US$400,000 at today’s street value.If that heroin had made it back to Australia it would have contributed to hundreds of shattered lives.Teenage drug addicts found dead in back alleys, needles hanging from their arms, choked to death on their own vomit; grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.Back in 2005, Chan and Sukumaran presumably didn’t care about those lives. They just wanted the money.They didn’t care too much about the risk either. They were prepared to smuggle drugs out of a country notorious for its harsh treatment, including execution, of drug dealers.At the time, the financial reward for Chan and Sukumaran was worth the risk of death by firing squad.They probably felt differently lately.

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