- 28 Aug 2003 13:30
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I have been watching peruvian TV all my life, and have never seen a single report of this, except the (japanese embassy hijacking)thats why believe this is a total cover up, moreover a pure crime done by the state, proving to me how the media does manipulate information by orders of the government and other centers of power.
at least 40,000 people died or disappeared in Peru between 1980 and 2000, a report published by the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday is expected to say.
The two-year investigation into violence during the state's crackdown on left-wing rebels will be handed to Peru's President Alejandro Toledo at 1200 (1700 GMT) in the capital, Lima.
The report says most of the victims of Peru's internal war are believed to have come from indigenous communities, trapped between state troops and rebel insurgents such as the Shining Path.
The commission - which collected 17,000 testimonies from people affected by the violence - says it will now work to help Peru put the horrors of the past behind it.
Atrocity
The report's nine volumes of evidence and other information cover Peru's brutal civil war, which ranks among the bloodiest in Latin American history.
Warfare - spanning three presidencies - between the Shining Path guerrillas and the government often claimed civilian victims, the report says.
Zuniga, a 30-year old resident in Lima said people did not take note of the fighting before it reached the capital.
"I was only 15. We didn't pay attention to what was happening in the countryside," she said.
"It didn't affect us. You didn't realise that often it was innocent people who died."
Official blame
The BBC's Hannah Hennessey in Lima says the investigation team blames the military for most of the violence, not the guerrilla groups as was initially assumed.
About 100 military officers are expected to be named in the report, commissioner Gasten Garatea told AFP news agency.
Records detailing serious human rights violations by individual officers will not made available to the public, but will be handed directly to prosecutors.
Retired generals formerly responsible for rebel-held areas - generally remote sections of the Andes mountains - have criticised the report ahead of its release, saying they have done nothing wrong.
Mr Garatea warned the final toll of dead and unaccounted for in Peru's Cold War-era conflict could reach up to 75,000.
The conflict is estimated to have cost the country about $25bn in damage.
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