In Peru, the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported yesterday that more than 69,000 Peruvians died or disappeared from 1980 to 2000 as a result of political violence. Investigators described the period as a “time of national shame.” The commission blamed the rebel group Shining Path was blamed for slightly more than half the killings. The report also criticized the government, the army and the nation’s political class. The president of the commission said Peru’s security forces employed a “systematic or generalized practice of human rights violations.”