A video diary believed to have been recorded just after the first round of Indonesian executions this January shows Bali Nine Australian Andrew Chan close-up, reflecting on his choices that have set him en route to the firing squad.
In just 30 seconds of footage, Chan is said to be responding on January 18 to the January 17 Indonesian executions, as he talks with bars in the background, likely in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison, according to the Australian program Sunday Night, which aired the footage.
It’s an eery video, as Chan mainly avoids looking directly into the camera with apparent emotion.
“Um my name is Andrew Chan. It is a day, pretty much a few hours after the execution, six innocent lives…… I guess what runs through my head is how precious life really is, that all we can do about the moment we live for, I guess sometimes you kind of gotta think what does it take to get a second chance?” Chan says in the video, as transcribed by Sunday Night.
“People get second chances within their lives on the outside but how much can you get when you’re a convicted criminal?” Chan adds.
Andrew Chan, along with fellow convicted ringleader Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group was transported to Nusakambangan prison island last Wednesday, the site of their execution. However, even as Indonesia remains adamant that the Bali Nine pair will face the firing squad, no set date for their execution has been announced yet.
