37 identity of those responsible, because the corresponding authorities did not investigate the crimes and punish them; d) the sum of US$ 150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars) should be paid for the non-pecuniary damage caused to each of the victims, and this amount should be given to their heirs; and the sum of US$ 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand United States dollars) should be paid to each of the following: Ana María Contreras, Matilde Reyna Morales García, Marta Isabel Túnchez Palencia, Noemí Cifuentes and Margarita Urbina for the non-pecuniary damage they have suffered; e) the sum of US$ 6,000.00 (six thousand United States dollars) should be paid for non-pecuniary damage to Lorena Dianeth Villagrán Morales, sister or Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales, and to each of the following siblings of Henry Giovanni Contreras: Mónica Renata Agreda Contreras, Shirley Marlen Agreda Contreras and Osman Ravid Agreda Contreras; f) the following persons should be considered beneficiaries of the payment of compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused directly to the five youths who were deprived of their lives; f.i) with regard to Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, his grandmother, Margarita Urbina; f.ii) with regard to Henry Giovanni Contreras, his mother, Ana María Contreras; f.iii) with regard to Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales, his mother, Matilde Reyna Morales García; f.iv) with regard to Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, his mother, Marta Isabel Túnchez Palencia; f.v) with regard to Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes, his mother, Noemí Cifuentes; g) the concept of reparation “should not be reduced merely to the sum of loss of earnings + consequential damage + non-pecuniary damage, because the value of the essential asset – life – would remain uncompensated.” International human rights law and most legislations have understood this. The guarantee of the right to life in the Convention requires that it be granted an autonomous value. This concept is superimposed on what the Commission calls the life plan. It is not a right of the heirs but of the victim himself, which is then transferred to his estate. Therefore, they requested the Court to establish a fair value, and the measures that, in its opinion, would constitute reparation for this concept. h) As minors, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes and Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales had the right to special guarantees of protection under Article 19 of the Convention and this right was violated, owing to the arbitrary deprivation of life and the right to adequate living conditions. Therefore, they requested the Court to establish this value and the measures that, in its opinion, would constitute fair reparation; and

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