Peru’s 1980-2000 conflict displaced nearly a million people and killed over 69,000.

Evidence

Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which published its final report in 2003, estimated that in the fighting from 1980 to 2000 between 600,000 and 1 million people were displaced and more than 69,000 were killed or disappeared. The Fujimori government was accused of using death squads and of other crimes against humanity. The Sendero Luminosa, which originally struggled for land reform and other social rights, became increasingly totalitarian, driving populations from their villages and creating prison camps that used forced labor (Norwegian Refugee Council 2004). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2007

Categorization

• XREF: Counterweight to the chapter’s framing of de Soto/titling, showing the violent context his property programs were embedded in. — connects to: Most Peruvian political-violence victims were neglected highland Indian peasants — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 701