Riots After Indonesia Executes Three Catholics

In Palu, Indonesia, according to the Associated Press, three Roman Catholics convicted of instigating attacks on Muslims were executed by a firing squad on Thursday. Human rights workers have charged that the executed men were not the leaders of the attacks, and that their 2001 trial was a sham. Following the execution, mobs of Christians torched cars, blockaded roads and looted Muslim-owned shops. Some 200 inmates escaped from a jail assaulted by the mobs in the town of Atambua.