AN online computer game in which players score points for blowing up women and children has been condemned by Bali victims just hours before the bombers are to be executed.
Kaboom -- The Suicide Bombing Game features a cartoon man blowing himself up in a crowded market in a bid to kill as many people as possible. The free game shows graphic images of splattered body parts.
The UK-based Bali Bombing Victims Group wants the "sick, callous and upsetting" game taken down immediately. British woman Susanna Miller, who lost her brother Dan in the 2002 attacks which killed 202 people - including 88 Australians - told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "It's callous, inappropriate, irresponsible and deeply offensive. I find it disturbing.
| "If you are deeply offended by this game then you're way too f***ing sensitive and I hope you've been scarred for life." |
"I appeal to any sites featuring this game to remove it. It's completely sick."
The game's creator, known as Sam, writes on one website: "If you are deeply offended by this game then you're way too f***ing sensitive and I hope you've been scarred for life."
Sam added he was trying to portray suicide bombing as "crude and pointless".
| Like any good, enlightened, sensitive soul of an artist, he's 'just trying to make us think'. The implication, of course, is that we don't. |
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