Remembering the victims of the Bali Bombings

Terrorism is an over used word in the 21st Century. We hear it so frequently it doesn’t seen to shock anyone anymore. With the anniversary of the bombings at the Sari Club and Paddy’s, in Kuta Bali here again, its good to get an idea, of what the families of the victims are going through.

You only have to listen to those in the thick of things, during the Bali Bombings, to understand how many sad stories there are. A friend of mine, who helped out at Sanglah hospital in Denpasar, was told by a visiting doctor, that the scene was way worse, than anything he’d seen in Vietnam.

He told me how one of his friends, Ana Cecilia Aviles, from Ecuador was found alive with a chunk of metal driven through her and was told she’s make it. She did not, and was Ecuador’s only victim. He also told me about an Aussie guy, who was on a stretcher in the hallway at Sanglah. His evac to Perth was an hour from leaving. My friend talked with him for 45 minutes, and the fellow seemed comfortable. His name was Craig, and my friend got called away for a few minutes. Walking along a corrider he saw a nurse updating the list of dead, and she wrote ‘C’. My friend said “I’m still walking, but I’m looking back, and she writes ‘R-A-I-G’ .” He passed away.

Blogcritics has an article about one Sydney family, still dealing with the loss of their daughter, Chloe Byron.