Coverage begins with a survey of Peruvian history and devotes separate sections to organizations, political parties and revolutionary movements. The section on Sendero Luminoso is written by David Scott Palmer, a leading Senderologist. Peru en Numeros . Although in Spanish, this yearbook of statistics is invaluable for comparing numbers before, during and after the years of Sendero's strength. There are statistics of human rights abuses, innocent people accused of terrorism, registered disappearances, terrorist acts, deaths and state of emergency zones.
Comparisons are easy, since the tables and graphs organize the data by years and departments.
Number of disappearances in Peru over the period 1982-1995. U.N. Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 1996.