LIMA, Peru - The remains of nine students and a university professor killed in 1992 by Peruvian security forces have finally been buried.

Family members and hundreds of supporters crowded a Lima cemetery to bury the remains.

Gisela Ortiz said the burial closes a chapter in a history of pain. Ortiz is the sister of one of the victims, who were killed on suspicion of being rebel sympathizers.

Prosecutors are seeking to convict former President Alberto Fujimori of authorizing a military death squad that carried out the La Cantuta massacre 16 years ago.

He denies the charges.

The bodies were exhumed in 2007, but forensics experts have only been able to identify four of the victims.

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