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The Project’s Waleed Aly Presented A Must-Watch Segment On The #Bali9 Tonight

'The Five Times Andrew And Myuran Were Let Down' has been going viral on social media since airing on Channel Ten earlier this evening.

by Junkee  29 April 2015

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In the early hours of this morning, an Indonesian firing squad of twelve executed Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran for their role in the Bali Nine drug smuggling plot, along with six other prisoners. Australia’s national conversation has been flooded with debate, outrage and emotion surrounding the case since at least early February, when the Indonesian Government confirmed the two men would be killed in the next round of executions.

But according to a confronting new piece from The Project, delivered by Waleed Aly this evening, the two reformed men had been let down by both Indonesia and Australia far earlier than that.

“Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were guilty men,” Aly says, in a piece that has been going viral since airing tonight. “They were criminals. They were ringleaders of an operation to smuggle drugs into this country. But they were also let down, time and again, right up to their final hours.”

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