East Timor massacre anniversary
![Candles are lit in an earlier commemoration of the Santa Cruz massacre. [ABC]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r199530_762640.jpg "Candles are lit in an earlier commemoration of the Santa Cruz massacre. [ABC]")
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Candles are lit in an earlier commemoration of the Santa Cruz massacre. [ABC]
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East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta is attending a memorial for the 18th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre.
More than 250 people died in 1991, when Indonesian troops fired on a memorial procession to the Santa Cruz cemetery, in the capital, Dili.
In all, 271 East Timorese are known to have died, while a further 250 are missing, believed dead, and 382 were wounded.
Dr Ramos Horta has pushed for the construction of a memorial garden to victims of the massacre.
He says compensation should also be paid to survivors.
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