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Love the bouquet of weasel words and qualifiers. "May have", "indications", "allegations", "may constitute"
I think there should be a general rule of thumb that when a Western news article uses this many qualifiers, it's probably bullshit and they're trying to cover their ass when it inevitably gets called out for being bullshit.
This isn't that though. It's a UN report that's the result of an investigation by Michelle Bachelet (former president of Chile and head of the Socialist Party of Chile). The only reason you're seeing articles saying "may have" instead of making up some N+1 million figure (N being the last time they pulled a random number out their ass) is because that's the language the report uses
The report is linked in the second paragraph:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf