Muslim on trial for allegedly beheading Christian girls

A suspected Muslim militant went on trial today accused of the beheadings of three Christian girls as they walked to school on Indonesia’s terror-scarred Sulawesi island.

Prosecutors alleged that Hasanuddin wanted to avenge the deaths of Muslims by Christian mobs during sectarian fighting between 1999 and 2002 and left a hand-written note with the girls’ heads vowing more machete attacks.