Peering into the site of the old Sari Club through a hole in its corrugated iron fence, Andrew Csabi knows a part of him will always be there
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Csabi lost his left leg, part of his right foot and sustained other serious, permanent injuries as a result of a car bomb that tore apart the popular Kuta nightspot in 2002. “I think it’s important to come back to do this,” McKay said. “I’m an ex-soldier, so we honour tradition [on] Anzac Day, the people caught up on the night had no right to be attacked or assaulted like that. So, I think it’s important that we remember them.”More than 300 guests are expected at a commemoration service on Wednesday at the Australian government’s consulate-general in Denpasar.
“Twenty years, it’s gone so fast. It never goes away but in 20 years there is a lot of healing,” Hanley said on Tuesday. Beyond that, there has been very little change to the plot over the years. Plans for a memorial garden, or peace park, have never eventuated despite the Australian and state governments pledging support to purchase the 1500 square-metre site from its owner. After an uproar at previous plans to build a restaurant there, he now has designs on a hotel.
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