The BBC profiles the key men executed, jailed or accused of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombing, in which 202 people died.
Amrozi
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, dubbed the “smiling bomber” by the media for his demeanour during court appearances, was the first of the Bali bomb suspects to go on trial.
He was found guilty of helping to plan and carry out the attacks and was sentenced to death on 7 August 2003.
Police said he admitted to owning the van used to bomb the Sari Club in Kuta, and to buying explosives.
They said he left for Malaysia in the late 1980s and returned in the early 1990s, having met an older brother who gave him religious guidance.
He reportedly studied at an Islamic school in southern Malaysia where two other suspects – Imam Samudra and his older brother Mukhlas – and detained Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir are all said to have taught.
Amrozi was said to have plotted the bombing with another suspect, Imam Samudra, and to have met him in Bali six days before the bombing.
Along with Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, Amrozi put forward an unsuccessful appeal in 2006 against execution by firing squad, arguing that beheading was more humane.
In October 2008, he warned that there would be “retribution” if he were executed. The execution was carried out on 8 November 2008. next Imam Samudra.
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