For more than three decades, 122 graves of fallen soldiers remained unidentified in a cemetery on the islands Argentina calls the Malvinas, and Britain calls the Falklands. The Argentine soldiers were killed in the 1982 war between Argentina and the UK. Now, after a historic identification process led by the International Red Cross, 90 families have been able to visit the islands to see their relatives' graves. To mark the anniversary of the war, CGTN's Joel Richards has this report.

For many decades, Maria Reyes Lobos waited for news of her son at her home outside Buenos Aires.

MARIA REYES LOBOS SOLDIER'S MOTHER "For more than 35 years I have carried on, not knowing where my son was."

Jose Antonio Reyes Lobos fought in the 1982 war on the Islands in the South Atlantic which took 649 Argentine lives and 255 British lives. Maria was only told that her son had died, but not where he lay buried. The family presumed his body was in the Darwin Military cemetery on the Malvinas, in one of the 122 unidentified graves which for many years read 'Argentine soldier, known only to God.' In 2012, Argentine war veteran Julio Aro began the campaign to identify the unnamed graves after visiting the islands.

JULIO ARO WAR VETERAN "Parents have not ended their mourning, they haven't closed that wound, I put myself in the place of the mothers and their sons and thought if I had died there."

Aro's campaign lead to Britain and Argentina agreeing in 2016 to allow the Red Cross to start DNA testing. To date, 90 bodies have been identified, and last week, relatives made a historic visit to the newly identified graves. Argentina's Human Rights Secretary says this process has helped families through their grieving.

CLAUDIO AVRUJ ARGENTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SECRETARY "These are very individual experiences, very unique, but when you see the faces of the mothers and parents, this has been a healing process."

Despite lingering tensions over the 1982 war, the Islands' community supported this initiative.

BARRY ELSBY LOCAL ASSEMBLY MEMBER "I think that must be so good for the families to know what happened to their loved one after so many years and I think all Falkland Islanders support what has gone on with the DNA process."

JOEL RICHARDS MALVINAS ISLANDS "The family of Jose Antonio Reyes Lobos now know that he is buried here in sector C of this cemetery. There is a plaque with his name on. But there are many other graves that have yet to be identified."

Some families chose not to take part in the identification process, and there are still more than 30 unidentified graves in this cemetery. But for mothers like Maria Reyes Lobos , there is at last a sense of closure.

MARIA REYES LOBOS SOLDIER'S MOTHER "I can see his grave with his name as he deserves. Now I know where he is, I didn't know before. He was a lost soul."

Maria is due to travel to the Islands later this month, to finally visit her son's grave, after 36 years of waiting. Joel Richards, CGTN.