More than two decades after they were massacred by Maoist-inspired insurgents during Peru’s bloody civil conflict, 34 Andean villagers were finally given a proper burial.

Two trucks pulled up in the hamlet of Valle Esmeralda de Huayao carrying cardboard boxes with the victims’ skeletal remains. In previous cases in the region, bereaved relatives had to travel to the regional capital, Huamanga, 40 miles away over a mountain pass, to receive remains.