Dili – About 1,000 protesters Tuesday demanding that the Indonesian soldiers who shot to death 200 people at a rally 11 years ago be brought to justice.

The November 12, 1991, massacre at the Santa Cruz cemetery, in the capital, Dili, was secretly caught on video and broadcast around the world. It galvanized opposition to Indonesia's brutal rule of East Timor.

A few low-ranked soldiers were prosecuted over the shootings. But no senior officers have ever faced justice.

The demonstrators, many of whom were survivors of the shootings or relatives of victims, gathered for an emotional church service and then marched through the city.

East Timor broke from Indonesia in 1999 after a UN-sponsored referendum. After two years of UN administration it gained its nationhood on May 20.

Some of the protesters held up photos of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto, who ordered the 1975 invasion of East Timor. Others had pictures of former Indonesian military chief Gen. Wiranto, who was in charge of the armed forces in 1999 and has been blamed for the deaths of about 1,000 people at the hands of Indonesia's army and its militia supporters at the time of the vote.

Several UN officials have called for an international war crimes tribunal, akin to those for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to bring to justice those responsible for the bloodshed.