JAKARTA, April 9 (UPI) -- Indonesia's president visited a cemetery in East Timor Saturday where, in 1991, the country's troops killed hundreds of protesters.
The visit by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was the first by an Indonesian head of government to the site and marked an official attempt at reconciliation after East Timor's 1999 breakaway from Indonesia.
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Some 200 were killed and about 270 became missing when troops opened fire on 3,000 people, the BBC said.
Yudhoyono signed a border agreement Friday, described by both sides as a good step towards normalizing relations.
The president prayed at the cemetery, where a peaceful commemoration of an activist killed by the Indonesian military turned into a bloodbath.
