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According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shining Path guerrilla attacks claimed an estimated 12,500 lives during the organization's active phase.
This understates the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s estimate by a wide margin. The Commission estimated that Shining Path was responsible for about 31,331 deaths, not 12,500.
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The cited number does not match the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR).
The CVR’s final report states that Shining Path (PCP-SL) was responsible for 54% of the fatal victims reported to the CVR and estimates that the total number of fatal victims caused by Shining Path was 31,331 people. A separate statistical annex to the final report repeats the same estimate.
So attributing 12,500 deaths to Shining Path as the CVR estimate is incorrect; the CVR’s estimate is roughly 31,331.
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- Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) – Capítulo 1: PCP-SL
La CVR ha constatado que ... el PCP-SL ... fue responsable del 54% de víctimas fatales reportadas a la CVR. En base a los cálculos realizados, la CVR estima que la cifra total de víctimas fatales provocadas por el PCP-SL asciende a 31,331 personas.
- Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) – Anexo 2: ¿Cuántos peruanos murieron?
Tabla 1 ... PCP-SENDERO LUMINOSO ... Estimado: 31,331 ... TOTAL: 69,280.
killed over 40 people
The Tarata bombing did not kill 'over 40 people.' Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru’s state news agency both report 25 deaths.
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This casualty figure is too high.
Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented the Tarata attack and reported that 25 people were killed. Peru’s state news agency Andina, summarizing the event on its anniversary, also states that the bombing claimed 25 lives and injured 155 people.
Because multiple credible Peruvian sources put the death toll at 25, the statement that the bombing “killed over 40 people” is incorrect.
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- Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) – Caso ilustrativo Tarata
en el atentado subversivo de la Calle Tarata murieron 25 personas
- Peru marks 31 years of Tarata bombing | ANDINA
The deadly act of violence claimed 25 lives and left 155 people wounded.
He was diagnosed with tongue cancer in early 2024.
Fujimori’s tongue cancer was not first diagnosed in 2024. Reputable reports show he had tongue cancer or a cancerous tongue lesion years earlier.
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This sentence incorrectly suggests that Fujimori’s tongue cancer only began in 2024.
But reporting from 2013 stated that Fujimori already suffered from cancer of the tongue and had undergone five surgeries for it. Reuters likewise reported in 2018 that he had a cancerous tongue lesion. In 2024, Deutsche Welle reported that doctors had detected a new malignant tumor in the tongue, where he had had a cancerous lesion for more than 27 years.
So 2024 was not the initial diagnosis of Fujimori’s tongue cancer; at most it was a later recurrence or new tumor in a long-running condition.
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- Peru's leader rejects Fujimori's plea for pardon - Los Angeles Times
Fujimori’s family appealed to Humala to grant a pardon on humanitarian grounds because the former president suffers from cancer of the tongue for which he has received five surgeries.
- Peru's pardoned Fujimori says has tumor, denies political comeback - Reuters/Yahoo
Fujimori, who suffers from hypertension and has had a cancerous tongue lesion, said he does not feel comfortable with the struggle between his children over the control of the Popular Force party.
- Fujimori revela que tiene tumor maligno en la lengua – DW
le fue detectado un tumor maligno en la lengua, donde padece una lesión cancerígena desde hace más de 27 años.