An Indonesian policeman stands guard in front of Wijayapura port near the prison island of Nusa Kambangan in Cilacap, Central Java island, Indonesia, April 28, 2015. REUTERS/Beawiharta
CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Nine drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours.
"I won't see him again," said Raji Sukumaran, the mother of an Australian who will go before a firing squad along with a fellow countryman and convicts from Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia.
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