A diplomatic backlash is underway after eight drug traffickers, seven of them foreigners, were executed by an Indonesian firing squad.<br /><br /> Indignation has been loudest from Australia over the death sentences carried out early on Wednesday against its two citizens Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.<br /><br /> Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's families will remember them as pastor and painter, not drug mules. #Bali9 #9News pic.twitter.com/tcJzwP7fcN— Nine News Brisbane (@9NewsBrisbane) April 29, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> The two Australians as well as four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian were executed in a forest clearing on the prison island of Nusakambangan.<br /><br /> According to the Sydney Morning Herald, all are said to have sung hymns and refused blindfolds in their final moments.<br /><br /> Trade ties between Australia and Indonesia will continue but Australia has recalled its ambassador.<br /><br /> “We respect Indonesia’s sovereignty but we do deplore what has been done and this cannot be simply business as usual,” Austral