The presidents of Poland and Ukraine paid tribute on Saturday to 366 Ukrainian civilians killed in ethnic violence between Poles and Ukrainians near the end of World War II.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko laid wreaths at a memorial to 366 Ukrainian civilians in the eastern Polish village of Pawlokoma, in a gesture of reconciliation between the two neighbors.

In March 1945, Polish fighters killed the 366 Ukrainian civilians in a massacre aimed at exacting revenge for an earlier attack by Ukrainians which killed more than a dozen Poles.

The memorial was officially unveiled in March on the anniversary of the massacre. Yushchenko arrived in Warsaw on Friday for a two- day visit to Poland focused on healing painful wounds.

Source: Xinhua