Most Peruvian political-violence victims were neglected highland Indian peasants

Evidence

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its nine-volume report in August on the country’s political violence that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. The report, which accused both [Shining Path] and the military of atrocities, shocked many observers by more than doubling the estimated number of deaths during the protracted insurgency. These findings reflected the fact that nearly three-fourths of the victims of both the guerrillas and the military were Indian peasants living in rural areas, and that these rural poor have long suffered neglect at the hand of the central government. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 701

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s regime-capacity matrix question — Peru as a low-capacity, transitioning regime where violence falls disproportionately on politically marginal populations; resonates with the asymmetry hypothesis that those outside institutional absorption bear the brunt. — connects to: Formal democracy did not extend to rural Peru, fueling civil war — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 33; Democratizing Peru held its own death-squad veterans accountable — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 506; Peru’s 1980-2000 conflict displaced nearly a million people and killed over 69,000. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2007
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 701

Broader Connections

• Peru’s 1980-2000 conflict displaced nearly a million people and killed over 69,000. #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2007