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(20 May 2022)
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Accomarca, Ayacucho, Peru - 20 May 2022
1. Relatives of victims of Acomarca massacre watching over caskets of their loved ones during overnight wake
HEADLINE: Massacre victims buried decades later
2. Relatives watching over caskets
ANNOTATION: Family members gathered on Friday to finally bury the remains of loved ones killed in one of the worst massacres in Peru's history.
3. Portrait drawing of victim, on top of casket, surrounded by candles
4. Relatives in front of caskets during wake
ANNOTATION: The poignant ceremony comes almost four decades after dozens were murdered by state security forces in the small village of Accomarca in 1985.
5. Wide of relatives and caskets during wake
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Accomarca, Ayacucho, Peru - 19 May 2022
6. Maria Bladeon and her family in front of the three caskets belonging to their relatives killed in the massacre
7. Close up of Baldeon, in tears
ANNOTATION: Maria Baldeon lost her mother, her aunt and her little brother that day and has been waiting to bury them ever since.
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Baldeon, relative of Accomarca massacre victims:
"After 37 years I have just seen their bodies, their bones, of my mother and my little brother, and their clothing that they are giving us to be able to bury them with dignity,"
9. Forensic physician putting remains inside casket
ANNOTATION: Forensic physicians from Peru's Public Ministry returned the remains of 37 identified victims among the 71 killed.
10. Remains of Primitiva Ramirez, Maria Baldeon's mother, inside casket
11. Close of remains inside casket
ANNOTATION: Baldeon recounted how members of the army constantly accused villagers and their family members of being rebels even as they stated they were not.
12. Relatives walking to church where wake will be held, coffins being carried behind
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Baldeon, Relative of Accomarca massacre victims:
"We never were rebels and yet they killed our family like butchers, as if they were animals. They killed them. They burned them."
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Accomarca, Ayacucho, Peru - 20 May 2022
14. Relatives of the victims place candles at the place where villagers were killed
ANNOTATION: The 20-year conflict between Peru's military and the Shining Path rebel group killed more than 70,000 people.  
ANNOTATION: The burial on Friday followed an all-night wake to honor the deceased and celebrate their lives while they mourn their loss once again
STORYLINE:
Almost four decades after one of the worst massacres in the country's history, Peruvian authorities handed over for burial the bones of people killed by the army in 1985 during the Andean nation's internal conflict with rebel groups.
Forensic physicians from Peru's Public Ministry returned the remains of 37 identified victims among the 71 killed in the village of Accomarca on August 14, 1985.
Maria Baldeon lost her mother, her aunt and her little brother that day and has been waiting to bury them ever since.
"After 37 years I have just seen their bodies, their bones, of my mother and my little brother, and their clothing that they are giving us to be able to bury them with dignity," Baldeon said.
The families buried their loved ones Friday after holding an all-night wake to honor the deceased and celebrate their lives while mourning their loss once again.
The 20-year conflict between Peru's military and the Shining Path rebel group killed more than 70,000 people.
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