The speeches exhorted listeners to wage jihad. On the fourth anniversary of the bombings Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall unveiled a memorial in London, at the rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building, facing St. James's Park. We went to investigate [the hotel first]and then worked our way towards what ended up being 'Ground Zero'. Mr Fyfe recently returned to Bali for the first time since the bombings. One of the big reasons he needed to get well fast, he said, was because of his then four-year-old son, Liam. Or that a third bomb would detonate about 45 seconds later nearthe US consulate. heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. In Perth, David Fyfe surfs with a prosthetic leg. On 8 August, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. She sat me there, gave me water. Australian University. The Foundation was represented at the dinner by David Fyfe, Bali bomb survivor, burns victim and a Foundation Non-Executive Director. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Philippine intelligence considers Munandar to be associated with Mohammad Abdullah Sughayer, a Saudi national Abu Sayyaf Group in southern Philippines. She has travelled with him, along with Mr Cowdery and other former Perth City teammates, to Bali for the 20th anniversary of the bombings. 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Online, current affairs program, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 18:40. That can only be in a war and Indonesia is not at war."[47]. The former Scot has been running Synergy, which has more than one million customers, in an acting capacity since Mr Waters stepped down in February. It was a typical Saturday nightin Bali and the Kuta Beach tourist strip was heaving with people. Transaction records, directors wealth, remuneration data and network activity. Mr Fyfe is a non-executive director of the Fiona Wood Foundation, a 2002 Bali bombing survivor, and regularly speaks at events in Western Australia. The first lotjust had their clothes on. It was never in my DNA to give up, anyway. So it enables the translation of the global jihad to a local context. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Once they pulled me out of the wheel chair I don't remember anything else. Energy Minister Bill Johnston said Mr Fyfes experience across WA places him in a strong position for the challenges and opportunities he will face, as we progress towards a low-carbon, renewable energy future. But what a moment this is, for not only Australia, not only for AFL football, but for the free world as well. GP Dr Tony Pethick MBBS 89, walked from his hotel towards the aftermath and discovered people in dire need of urgent first aid treatment. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Abu Bakar Bashir, the doyen of JI, is free, jailed then cleared of any involvement in the Bali atrocity. In Lincoln Square on the western side of Swanston Street in Carlton, Melbourne, is a memorial representing the 88 Australians who died in the bombings, and notably the 22 from Victoria. I raced outside as did everyone who was in the club to see what was going on. Mr Fyfe, now the chief executive of Synergy, was just metres from the suicide bomber who detonated his bomb inside Paddy's Bar at the start of the 2002 Bali attack. HP10 9TY. A memorial to seven residents of Sutherland Shire who were victims is at Cronulla. Just past midnight on 9 November 2008, the three convicted of carrying out the bombings (Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron) were executed by a firing squad. It has different religious traditions, a whole range of different traditions [and]the people are different. Blatantly lied to: Clarkes ex responds to cheating drama, McGowan to spruik WAs green hydrogen during Asian junket, Incompetence: War of words over gas bills. He was severely injured and received significant burns. On 12 October 2010, Australian and Indonesian survivors of the 2002 bombings attended a solemn commemoration service to mark the eighth anniversary of the devastating attacks.[48]. Clint Thompson Trent Thompson He also required five litres of blood to replace what he had lost and to keep him alive. There were people bleeding everywhere, or people had their clothes blown off and they're trying to jump over walls to get out. Opening Australia's eyes to burns injuries, Professor Wood, together with her team at Royal Perth Hospital, helped save 28 patients using her innovative technique known as "spray on skin". It was months after the October 2002 terror attacks, when he was finally discharged from hospital and returned to his Perth home, that the Scottish migrant sat on his couch and did something he had never done before and would never do again. A manager with Western Power, Mr Fyfe said he used the resilience and patience the bombings had awoken in him to help his employees and himself. CSABI: [I was] put on a sheet of corrugated iron and four [people] carried me down Poppies[Lane]. After praying with the crowd, she spent half an hour in the house of the executed man and spoke with his mother. The fountain shuts off and becomes a reflecting pool on 12 October each year. DECI: There was a woman helping me, telling me to come and that she'll call an ambulance. That has not held him back; quite the contrary. contact the editor here. 19m. My blood pressure just started to plummet and my heart rate had gone through the roof. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). There was nobody else there, and it was at that moment I thought 'right, deal with it'.". Sometimes in life, the scars you have are a representation of some of the things youve gone through and Im very comfortable with my scarring. When images of the Bali bombings flashed on the television in his ward, terror and pain and tragedy distilled and concentrated on a small screen, he stopped hospital staff from changing the channel. Editors' Code of Practice. Among those killed at Paddy's Irish Bar and the nearby Sari Club were. I couldn't see I could only see one dot of light in the distance. And my condition was not good. Get the news you want delivered to your inbox. Other Australian victims were honored in a video shown on the stadium's video screens before the game, with the attendees including Melbourne players Steven Febey and Steven Armstrong, who were both injured in the blast, and representatives from five Australian rules football clubs who lost players in the attacks were presented to the crowd. Get the inside scoop on every news story and connect with WAs biggest leaders. So very early, I decided that I wasn't going to entertain those ideas of a lot of revenge [and] hatred. I was informed that might have been six or seven [minutes] after the blast. I asked him if he knew how many would be dead, not expecting him to know, and he just said 181 and one at another hospital, so 182 so far. But I can tell you at 25 years old, sitting three or four feet away from one of the Bali bombers there's a couple of them, but there was one at the time hearing them talk quite normally about their role in the investigation or their points on our design of the bomb and how we thought it had functioned was one of the most surreal things I've ever experienced. Then I was out. A Gannett Company. Angela Golotta, 19 (from Tea Tree Gully, was on holidays with her parents). A bronze plaque lists the names of the 88 Australians who died in the bombings. I met up with JodieCearns I didn't know she'd come back from Europe. The Bali bombings killed 202 people and changed Australia. I just thought that that was going to be the end for me. Although a private person, Professor Wood continues to make herself available for presentations and media opportunities, knowing that awareness is fundamental to attracting support for the work that she feels is still unfinished. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". Reveal sub navigation . Normally, we would have gone down to Paddy's Bar there but the two officers had only just stepped off the plane, so they didn't want to. His account of the bombing, his struggle to overcome his horrific injuries and the work of Fiona Wood in saving his life, graphically demonstrated the great work the Foundation has already done and why FPA . Mr Fyfe regarded himself and his friends as extraordinarily lucky, but retained powerful memories of the night that hospitalised him for two months. Idris picked up Imron on the Yamaha and the duo headed back into Denpasar. In the interim, they treated the wounded, managed fluid resuscitation and Vij performed countless escharotomies, an emergency surgical procedure to release the constrictive effects of severely burnt skin. So I had to walk away from those girls and leave them to die. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. The militant organisation is believed to have started planning the bombing some 10 months earlier after ordering a new strategy of hitting soft targets, such as nightclubs and bars. I thought a gas canister or something had exploded. He has held executive roles in operations, commercial sales, asset management, and business development. He had been tried under retroactive laws which were introduced after the bombing and which were employed to aid the prosecution of those involved in the attack. I tried to open the car door on the left side, but I couldn't do it I kept trying. Every time I opened the wardrobe I would cry. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. GREEN: This was the largest bombing I've ever attended, even today It was huge. So you had your forensics, you had your investigators the list went on family liaison officers. So I did take that on board. It was alleged that he tried to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state. He shies away from giving advice to others facing hardship. Then I was on a stretcher on a tarmac there in Denpasar, and we're on a Hercules jet bound for Darwin. DE HAART: People wandering around, people in a state of shock. The Scot said: "My fiancee Simone urged me to give it a try. The scale of the disaster meant that the Indonesian government quickly made an exception to allow foreign doctors to help at the hospital. MCEWAN: Over time, we had different police disciplines [in Bali]. An official with SANFL club Sturt), Tim Hawkins, 29 (from Hobart, a former Australian rower and brother of Olympic gold medallist Stephen Hawkins). It's difficult to get past it all. All Australian jurisdictions abolished the death penalty more than 30 years ago, but a poll[32] showed that 77% of Australians approved of the death sentence for Amrozi. The memorial was dedicated on 12 October 2004, the second anniversary of the attack. I'm acutely aware of my surroundings, I don't feel the same when I'm in airports, and don't feel as secure on public transport a lot. Bags of chemical ingredients for bombs were found in his workshop and soil samples taken from outside his home showed traces of the primary chemical used in the Sari Club bomb. What that meant was that Muslims, who were involved in the combat in those two places, which included members of JI, could take that 1998 fatwa from Al-Qaeda, and say, 'this is happening in Indonesia too, Muslims from the Christian Zionist alliance are being killed by this larger group'. "I got up on my first lesson, on the very last wave," he said. The University of Western Australia and Fiona Wood Foundation are working together to attract $3 million to establish an endowed chair in burns injury research. Ninety-four RDX electric detonators were fitted to the TNT. Quite a few people had got out. I gave him my mum's number. The cabinets, each containing a potassium chlorate, aluminum powder, sulfur mixture with a TNT booster, was connected by 150 metres (490ft) of PETN-filled detonating cord. It was dark. Friends later told Mr Fyfe he was lucid during the days he was in hospital in Bali. Companies, embassies, Non-Government Organizations, associations and even individuals come forth to get involved in the various events such as a Balinese dance competition presented by a surf-wear company, an environment exhibition presented by an embassy, a fun cycle presented by a group of individuals, a seminar presented by an association and a parade on the streets presented by an NGO. The local Sanglah Hospital was quickly overwhelmed with the number of victims. But keeping his path clear of any victims mentality has been the key to surging positively into his new lifes chapter. Despite a snapped Achilles tendon in his right leg, he managed to drag himself outside to the pavement before feeling the back of his legs and ending with hands pooled in blood. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. CRICOS: 00126G | PRV12169 David was on a trip with his football team when the devices exploded in the tourist district of Kuta, killing 202 people. As far as I know, Hambali did not have a source of funds except from Afghanistan. GREEN: On my first rotation over there, I was assisting on the criminal side of the investigation. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Called The Seed, the work is based on the seed and foliage of the Banksia robur, a native plant indigenous to the Shire. CSABI: I can't understand what goes through your mind there except when I woke up, I was just looking down. Professor Wood hopes this legacy will ensure that burns research continues in Western Australia long after she retires. Two plaques are set into the granite surrounding the pond. The whole nightclub was engulfed in flames. They saved my life, words are never enough, he said. David Fyfe, Synergys head of commercial and its acting chief executive, succeeds Jason Waters, who took the helm of the Perth Mint last month. At the time, I was in a daze. I dealt with it. He was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment. They were lazy, in my view, but that probably saved their life. An aeromedical evacuation to Australia was planned involving commercial and military aircraft. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. [28] The U.S. government had offered a US$1million reward for his arrest. He is passionate about the research that the Foundation undertakes. Weve got a newsletter for everyone. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. THIOLINA: After [being turned away from one hospital] an ambulance took me to the army hospital in Denpasar. Jodie Cearns' flat mate), Julian Burton, 29 (from Sturt Football club) in Royal Adelaide Hospital, burns. Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. The names of all 202 victims are on a curved stone wall behind the globe. "I thought 'it's time to get yourself out of here'.". The only time his emotions bubbled to the surface was when he spoke of the medical care he had received. The investigators were able to identify the location of a number of the telephones, leading to a series of arrests. On October 12, 2002, terrorists struck in Bali. Then I'd gone and fallen into that crater in the front and that's when an off duty soldier, Anthony McKay, came to my aid. The 20 year anniversary is being marked in several ways, Mr Fyfe and Professor Wood are speaking together at the upcoming Business News breakfast on The Path of Resilience, and author and journalist Sue Williams has released a biography of Professor Woods story, named Under Her Skin, with proceeds directed to the Fiona Wood Foundation. Broadcast Tue 3 Jul 2018 at 12:40pm. She basically turned around and took my leg off.". I choose not to live in the past, but to live in the now.. The final death toll was 202, mainly comprising Western tourists and holiday-makers in their 20s and 30s who were in or near Paddy's Pub or the Sari Club, but also including many Balinese Indonesians working or living nearby, or simply passing by. Further search of Amrozi's home revealed copies of speeches by Osama bin Laden, and Abu Bakar Bashir, the radical Indonesian Muslim cleric reputed to be the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah. ERIK DE HAART, Australia survivor and member of the Coogee Dolphinsrugby league club: I was sharing a room with Shane Foley and Gerard Yeo and we got [to the hotel] about 4pm. Balinese boys were hanging off the tree branches to one side, watching. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. Both my ear drums were perforated and I was blown off my feet. After major cleansing ceremonies, establishing a memorial for the lost lives, and paying respect to those who left loved ones behind, the people of Kuta look forward to restoring Bali's image through an event named "Kuta Karnival A Celebration of Life". [3] A further 209 people were injured. In 2006, Long Road to Heaven, an Indonesian feature film about the bombings, was released by Kalyana Shira Films. So we [went to] a restaurant bar about 400 metres [away], just at the top end of Jalan Legian. David Fyfe has over 20 years of experience across the energy and telecommunications industries. One of the things thats enabled me to get through is that I accepted everything that happened very quickly, I didnt fight the, Why has it happened?, Mr Fyfe said. It was more than anything else, the desire to show Westerners that no-one was safe anywhere. Shes an exceptional leader: so calm, so caring, but able to make tough decisions. I woke up and saw my mum next to me and she told me I had been unconscious for three days. The two suicide bombers exploded their devices. So I [was] attached to what was called the reconciliation team [which]looks at data and tries to identify the dead and that includes DNA and fingerprints and the traditional sort of forensic methodologies as well. [44][45] Indonesian singer and TV presenter Dorce Gamalama attended the funeral of Imam Samudra. He denied self-pity when it came knocking after the doctors at Royal Perth Hospital told him he had burns to more than 50 per cent of his body and had received extensive skin grafts. The boys were a matter of only five minutes away from the site when the bombs went off, but lifes full of sliding door moments.. Two hundred and two people died in the Bali bombings. Were working to restore it. First aid and burn innovations that saved lives during the Bali bombings. David Fyfe didn't cry when the nurses told him they had amputated his right leg. GREEN: It was fairly well-established pretty soon after the detonation itself, who the suspects were. Two bombs went off in Jalan Legian shortly after 11pm. One was detonated by a suicide bomber inside Paddy's Bar and seconds later, another bomb was set off in a car outside the Sari Club. journalism. ", West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. And then I thought 'ohshit, that looks like it's near the Sari Club.'. "For me it was an easy way out. The story is not chronologically linear, starting with the explosion and then moving from time to time so as all three plots are culminated one after the other. It was [an] obviously shocking series of events unfolding. [55], South of Sydney, in the town of Ulladulla, a large youth centre is being built as a memorial to Craig Dunn and Danny Lewis, two local victims of the bombings. Join us and Seek Wisdom. It was very colourful and noisy and warm in Kuta. Our community is particularly vulnerable to burns injury due to our landscape and the types of industry we operate," Professor Wood said. They were moved to isolation cells, and execution spots were ready on the Nusakambangan island prison where they were being held. Warning: This article contains graphic accounts of the Balibombings and the immediate aftermath of the scene in Kuta Beach, including descriptions of injured people and the dead. A couple from Adelaide who were holidaying on the island, Jon Mason and doctor Irene Kushelew, were with him in the hospital while he had many operations to save his life. I wasn't involved in that part of it, but I know a lot of my colleagues that I've spoken to during the investigation and since were travelling to all different parts of Indonesia at the time to suspected bomb-making or actual bomb-making factories. And Gary Nash continues to thank the lady who saved him. This was one of the very few fountains allowed to operate during the drought in 2007. So to see that sort of destruction was on another level. An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States' War on Terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor. Husband and wife Richard[16] and Gilana Poore,[17] who organized a makeshift triage area in the Bounty Hotel's reception area, were both honored with an OAM. And they were just interacting and sort of trying to joke around [in]the way most of the other Indonesians I had interacted with at that time [did]. Out of that 100-plus police force that arrived from Australia, it was every spectrum of policing discipline. They assisted in placing IV cannulas and IDCs, as well as offering emotional support, and began transferring patients out to the airport pending arrival of Australian Army medics on a Hercules plane. David, from Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, was in a coma for almost two weeks as doctors battled to save him. And the sky was lit up with this big orange glow, which is strange because all the lights are out. The door on the driver's seat was open, so I got out from there. Police found receipts for the purchase of chemicals used to make the bombs, as well as a list of expenses incurred in making the bombs. "It was going poisonous. Despite a snapped Achilles tendon in his right leg, he managed to drag himself outside to the pavement before feeling the back of his legs and ending with hands pooled in blood. She . And I turned around and followed him back into the Sari Club. Together, they weave together the story of the Bali bombings,the single-largest loss of Australian life in an act of terror. I do not know for sure the source of the aforementioned money from Hambali; most probably it was from Afghanistan, that is, from Sheikh Usama bin Laden. And then as I got closer, the sights got worse. Stuart Anstee, 23 (from Launceston) glass fragments in throat and back removed yesterday at Royal Darwin Hospital. [3] A further 209 people were injured. An off duty Australian serviceman assisted in identifying where all Australian and foreign casualties were located in the sprawling hospital wards. But I still remember what struck me is they were just so normal. View the profiles of people named David Fyfe. He stopped near the Sari Club, instructed one suicide bomber to put on his explosives vest and the other to arm the vehicle bomb. The specific charges against Bashir related to a series of church bombings on Christmas Eve in 2000, and to a plot to bomb United States and other Western interests in Singapore. Many severely injured Australians did survive, due to early interventions, but not everyone made it and Dr Pethick had a critical role in speaking with their families at that dark time. There will always be small, independent cellssome of whom are not particularly well informed that continue to believe that they have a mission. THIOLINA: I'm not sure how long I [was] passed out. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. New Synergy chief executive David Fyfe. I looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. Its 20 years on, but I can still remember a really loud popping noise, he said. I started writing furiously. And then I'd been informed we were being taken toSanglah Hospital. Additional photography courtesy of Reuters, AP and Facebook. Aris Munandar (aka Sheik Aris) is a Jemaah Islamiyah associate linked to Bashir. In April 2003, Indonesian authorities charged Abu Bakar Bashir (also rendered "Ba'asyir"), the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, with treason. I don't have any malice and anger, I can't let it into my life, because while I'm trying to do that, [being] angry and resentful, I'm not healing.