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Survivors and relatives of victims of the October 12, 2002 Bali bombings cry during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attack at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana cultural park in Jimbaran, Bali on October 12, 2012.
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Thousands of family members, friends and general public gathered to remember the victims of the 2002 Kuta nightclub bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
The Associated Press reports from Bali, Indonesia — A decade after twin bombs killed scores of tourists partying at two nightclubs on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, survivors and victims' families on Friday braved a fresh terrorism threat to remember those lost to the tragedy.
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A woman grieves as she attends the memorial service.
The 2002 bombing was Asia's deadliest terror strike, killing 202 people — including 88 Australians and seven Americans — and injuring more than 240 others partying at the popular Sari Club and Paddy's Pub in Kuta that Saturday night. The attack was carried out by suicide bombers from the al-Qaida-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah and kick started a wave of violence that would hit an embassy, hotels and restaurants in the world's most-populous Muslim-majority nation.
Surgeon Fiona Wood, who led a team of Australian doctors that treated victims horribly burned in the attack, spoke of the survivors' bravery.
"A young woman whose injuries were beyond comprehension. The first thing she said when she came out of her coma was, 'I'll never run; will I walk again?'" Wood recalled. "I said, 'You will walk, you will run, you will race.' And in 2008, she beat me in an ironman." Read the full story.
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A survivor of the bomb blast is helped by her family as they arrive for the commemoration service for the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombing.
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Emotional family members pay their respects at picture boards of the victims during the memorial service.
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Hundreds gathered in Bali, Indonesia, in remembrance of those lost 10 years ago when suicide bombers linked to al-Qaida orchestrated Asia's deadliest terror strike by bombing two nightclubs. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The victims of the 2002 Bali Bombings are remembered at ceremonies around the world on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. 202 people died when an al Qaeda-linked terror group detonated bombs at two nightclubs. ITN's Nina Nannar reports.
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These people who lost their loved ones for nothing but religious bigotry should take heart. Their loved ones did not die in vain. They were spending a day of vacation enjoying a dance and having fun. They died as 'martyrs' for the joys of living, dancing and being human. We should honor them by taking a day for ourselves and bring our girlfriends boyfriends husbands and wives to a disco-dance or a concert. Be sure to wear skimpy summer clothes. Have a beer or a glass of wine. Defiantly blaspheme against those judgemental fools who are so deeply offended, even hate you and would kill you for enjoying life.
There is no place in my life for a 'holy book' that instructs its followers to destroy the joys in life for the sake of religious subserviance.
Bless these people who died for the simple act of enjoying themselves.
I never go anywhere There is a muslem population.
The population of Bali is predominately Hindu, unlike most of Indonesia.
@Sunjka I'm American and live in Indonesia and have for MANY years it isn't the Muslim people that are the problem it is the RADICAL people that are the problem whether they be christian Muslim Buddhist or Hindu, if they are radical and have closed minds to differences without respect to each others beliefs that is the problem.
I can tell you Most Muslims do not like or agree with that type of violence (take a close look at the photos and you will see also that a Muslim lost someone there who was not the suicide bombers wife. She is wearing a jilbab.
Many of my friends are Muslim and I also work with them for the most part Indonesia's different religions get along and respect each other. I'm Christian and the Muslims I know are also against this type of violence we respect each others beliefs and live in peace.
It is closed mindedness and hate that fuels the terrorists/radicals, which compared to the majority of the population is a very small group with a loud voice, however that does not mean that the majority agrees.
I agree with you!
Hope you know the history of Indonesia and they are proud of it!!
Religion is the opium of masses.
Too much dosage is very bad. However, unfortunately, Islamic madness (not in Indonesia) is crossing limits in most nations.
Indonesia is one of the exceptions to general Islamic religious madness.
Still, the Islamic extremists, especially those funded barbaric and beastly Sunni Saudi Arabia are trying to change the history!
Bali bombings is one example.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Sunni Saudi backed Salaffi and MB new chapters are opening up in Egypt. Just watch the fate of Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Pakis and Sunni Saudis and co are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones.
Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
Critical times hard to deal with, will be here,