The Search for the Disappeared
In 2003, when the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) delivered its Final Report to the country, it estimated that the number of detained-disappeared persons in Peru between 1980 and 2000 was 8,558 — the majority indigenous, Quechua-speaking, and from the poorest strata of society. A decade later, according to the Peruvian State, the figure of detained-disappeared has nearly doubled, reaching 15,731 victims.