Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru)

Peru, 2001 to 2003. Investigating the violence of 1980 to 2000, the commission estimated that 69,280 people died, and it held the Shining Path guerrillas responsible for 54 percent of the deaths reported to it. Two findings changed how Peru saw the conflict. Three in four of the dead spoke Quechua or another native language, exposing how far the killing fell on people the capital barely saw. And it refused a one-sided account: alongside the guerrillas, it found reasonable grounds to say that Alberto Fujimori, his adviser Vladimiro Montesinos and senior intelligence officials bore criminal responsibility for the Colina death squad's killings. A strong choice for seeing a commission blame both sides on the evidence.