GET RICH OR DIE TRYING T-SHIRTS

INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3135838/Get-rich-die-trying-T-shirts-photos-Bali-Nine-duo-executed-Indonesia-drug-smuggling-trigger-outrage.html

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 

By Lucy Thackray for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 19:43 EST, 23 June 2015 | Updated: 02:56 EST, 24 June 2015 

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 

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’.

   

Death penalty supporters protest at the port of Nusakambangan ahead of the execution of Bali Nine Kingpins Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1165092/Death-penalty-supporters-protest-execution-island-port.html]