The report from the Peruvian Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) observes that total estimated number of victims (69,280) differs considerably from the figures commonly advanced before the creation of the CVR. Earlier information came from the centers of social, economic, political and cultural power within the country. Drawing on the detailed discussions presented in the CVR report, we note that the geographic regions where the conflict was most intense are remote, and that the people who were affected were primarily peasants in rural areas, poor people, and those culturally farthest from the “western” world. Given these factors, it is disturbing but not,perhaps, surprising that so many of these citizens of this “ignored” Perú perished in the face of the ignorance and even indifference of the official, modern, and “western” Perú. Statistical methodology has parted the veil of indifference and ignorance, and the true state of affairs in Perú over the past two decades has begun to emerge.