The report suggests (pages 201-202) that the official assessment was similarly vague until at least March 2001:

Interviews with the soldiers themselves suggest that the official assessment of the brutality could well be accurate.

Since 1996, there have been three major official assessments of snowmobiles' impact on the park in winter.

The police will make an official assessment of the accident's circumstances that can subsequently be used if further legal action becomes necessary.

Here is an extract from the environment department's official assessment of what has happened in the past 20-30 years:

The home is actually considerably larger due to below ground area that is not part of the official assessment.

But assessors sometimes make mistakes and property owners have the right to challenge the official assessment.

The main aim of our actions is to make a court give an official legal assessment of what happened.

According to the latest official assessment Rio is home to 625 favelas but they cover just 3.8 per cent of the city's territory.

With the counting process in full swing, there was little official assessment abroad of the elections' fairness.