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New figures of victims

United Nations: In a dramatic upward revision of the number of victims, Peru's Truth Commission found between 40,000 and 60,000 people died or disappeared in the two decades when Government forces battled a brutal insurgency by Shining Path guerillas, the Commission said. Previous estimates held that 30,000 were killed and 6,000 disappeared between 1980 and the early 1990s. The new figures emerged on Tuesday as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission — an autonomous, government appointed group — neared the end of its two-year investigation, which included interviews with nearly 18,000 victims. According to the testimony, the Shining Path, a Maoist guerilla group, seeking to overthrow the Peruvian Government, was responsible for killing about half the victims, said a Commission member.

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