SATURDAY MARCH 7 2015 NATION 15 Dead man shot after ID mix-up Families turned away : Six weeks ago, CANBERRA: The horror want to confirm a time frame. executed a man who week for Andrew Chan and After planning for weeks to ex- was already dead. contin- ecute 10 prisoners at once and The man who faced the fir- ued yesterday with their famil- keep them on Nusakamban- ing squad, known as Namaona ies denied daily access to the gan for as little time as poss- Denis or Denis Namaona, 48, island jail where they are on ible, he now won’t say how supposedly from Malawi, in death row. many will go to the firing southern Africa, was strapped As outrage over Indonesia’s squad and has speculated to a plank along with four oth- “undignified” treatment of the about a 10-day delay. ers and shot on the evening of grows, the pair Indonesia was last night yet January 18, on the island of were held in isolation cells in to respond to Prime Minister Nusakambangan. Besi jail while their distressed ’s request for a Only he was not Denis and families were forced to bunker further phone call with Presi- he was not from Malawi. He down in a hotel a ferry ride dent . was someone else. After the away in Cilacap. Former foreign affairs min- name Namaona Denis was It is understood that Aus- ister Bob Carr has urged Aus- published around the world fol- tralian officials in Cilacap will tralia to form a pact with other lowing the execution, the fam- this weekend continue to push countries to tackle drug traf- ily of the real Denis Namaona for family access. ficking into Indonesia in ex- came forward to say he had Family visit days at Besi change for the Nine duo died in South Africa in 2013. prison, where the duo are held on death row. Appalled that he had been in a block of four cells along At Cilacap port, where a named as a drug runner, they with a Nigerian on death row, prisons ferry takes visitors and said Denis was a Malawi citi- are only Monday and Wednes- guards to the seven jails on zen who had moved to South day. Officials insist they can- Nusakambangan, Indonesia’s Africa in the 1990s. not relax the rules for the anti-drugs movement staged a His passport had been sto- Australians without doing so small protest, demanding the len in Johannesburg, some- for all the other prisoners. executions immediately. time between 1999 and 2000. yesterday lodged The group, called Granat, Most likely African drug boss- a formal complaint to the also rejected foreign nations’ es had obtained his passport on Indonesian ambassador over “intervention” on behalf of the black market and given it offensive photos of the pair, their citizens and Australia’s to one of their couriers, the who had to endure smiling prisoner swap proposal. man who was shot in January. officials posing for photos with Protester Slamet Mulyadi, Malawian authorities be- them during Wednesday’s holding a sign that said “go to lieve the man who was shot transfer flight to the island. hell criminal drugs”, said it was was most likely a Nigerian who No date for the executions – Indonesia’s right to execute had obtained Denis’ passport which must be given at least 72 felons. and travelled to Indonesia. hours beforehand – has been “This is my country, this is This was confirmed by the announced. an independent country, we man’s still-traumatised Indo- Indonesian Attorney-Gen- must save my generation,” he nesian wife. An Indonesian anti-drugs protester makes his feelings known at Cilacap Picture: AFP eral HM Prasetyo does not told reporters.

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