Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran: "victims of the exercise of naked power by the Indonesian executive" [DPN concurs] The Australian Catholic University has defended creating two scholarships commemorating executed drug runners Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Vice-chancellor Greg Craven has been surprised at the outpouring of hatred he's received since the university announced the "mercy scholarships", which are not named after the Bali Nine duo. An Australian university has defended creating two scholarships in memory of the Bali Nine pair. "These are not scholarships in memory of men who once were drug runners," he wrote in The Australian on Monday. "They commemorate men who died reformed, redeemed, courageously and uncompromisingly human." Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the creation of the scholarships was an odd thing for a university to do. However, Professor Craven said it was "pitilessly stupid...
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