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Hawkers cash in on executions of Bali Nine duo with T-shirts featuring a picture of the Australian drug smugglers and the slogan 'get rich or die trying’
- Bali markets are selling an offensive shirt mocking executed Australians
- Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were killed on April 29 this year
- A shirt is being sold with their image and the slogan 'get rich or die trying'
- The shirt is allegedly popular amongst Australian tourists in Bali
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Offensive shirts
mocking the executions of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran
Sukumaran are being sold in Balinese markets less than two months after the
Australian were killed
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Offensive
shirts mocking the executions of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and
Myuran Sukumaran are being sold in Balinese markets less than two months after
the Australian were killed.
A shirt
bearing the image of the Bali Nine duo with the slogan ‘Get rich or die trying’
– the title of a 50 Cent album and film – is being sold in Indonesia.
Andrew
Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 34, spent ten years in Bali's Kerobokan prison
after they were arrested and charged with heroin trafficking in 2005.
They were
killed by a firing squad on Indonesia’s Nusakambangan Island in the early hours
of April 29, despite pleas for clemency to the relentless Indonesian
government.
Australian tourist Josh Colback was disgusted when he saw the shirt for sale on popular Kuta shopping strip, Poppies Lane and posted an image and video on Facebook.
‘I only saw the shirt in one little street shop.
The price was the standard Bali shirt price, about $3 to $5,’ Josh Colback told
Daily Mail Australia.
‘I was pretty shocked when I walked past and
glanced at it. It made me stop and go back to film it.
‘It’s pretty distasteful and disrespectful to the
families of those two men. Regardless what people's personal opinion is on the
death penalty, this shirt takes it a bit further over the line.’
However when Mr Colback posted it on Facebook to
voice his concern the reaction was mixed, with some Australians outraged and
other amused by the t-shirt.
‘Horrific
making coin at these poor boys expense,’ wrote Christine Perry
‘The fact
that people find this shirt funny is shameful!’ wrote Felicity Kebab.
Some social
media users believed the men did not deserve to be defended given they were
convicted of a serious drug crime.
‘I want
one, truth hurts. Don’t be a drug dealer and you got no problem,’ wrote Johnny
Budalich on Facebook.
Others
expressed an interested in obtaining the shirt for themselves.
‘Hahaha
best thing ever I want one’ and ‘that’s funny as, gold,’ were other comments
which supported the offensive slogan.
According
to Twitter user Jayme Oliver-Twist, ‘stores said they’d actually sold quite a
few – to Aussies’ and although they are ‘very distasteful’ they ‘are selling
like crazy’.
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Death penalty supporters protest at the port
of Nusakambangan ahead of the execution of Bali Nine Kingpins Andrew Chan and
Myuran Sukumaran
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