10 fulfillment with the operative paragraph of the judgment of merits, reparations, and costs of September 12, 2005, issued by the Court in this present case. 30. That, in any case, conforming to Article 1(1) of the American Convention, the State has the general obligation to respect the rights and liberties recognized therein and to guarantee their free and full exercise to each person subject to its jurisdiction.12 As a consequence, independent of the existence of specific provisional measures, the State is especially obligated to guarantee the rights of the persons in situations of risk and must promote the necessary investigations in order to clarify the acts, following the consequences that pertinent legislation establishes.13 * * * 31. That this Tribunal emphasizes that it repeatedly solicited information about the situation of risk and the location of the beneficiaries from the representatives, a request that refers to all the beneficiaries. In order to obtain such information, the Secretary of the Tribunal, following the instructions of the President, through the notes of August 1, 2008 and August 22, 2008, reiterated the request for information. Likewise, the Order of the President of the Court of December 3, 2008, called a private hearing for such end and previous to this, an agreement of compromise assumed by the representatives required concrete and detailed information about the totality of the beneficiaries and their situation. Regarding the aforementioned, the Court observed that partial information exists regarding the situation of risk of the beneficiaries and their location. As a consequence, the Court requests that the information offered by the parties in the future refer to all the beneficiaries in a detailed manner, particularly that which, is remitted by the beneficiaries, and their representatives who better know the situation. THEREFORE, THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, pursuant to the authority conferred by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure,14 DECIDES: 12 Cf. Case of Velasquez Rodriguez. Provisional Measures regarding Honduras. Order of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights of January 15, 1988, Considering third; Matter of Carlos Nieto Palma et al., Supra note 2, Considering twenty-second; and Matter of Fernandez Ortega et al., supra note 2, Considering fourth. 13 Cf. Case of Velasquez Rodriguez. Provisional Measures regarding Honduras. Order of the Court of January 15, 1988, Considering third; Matter of Carlos Nieto Palma et al., supra note 10, Considering twentysecond; and Matter of Fernandez Ortega et al., Supra note 2, Considering fourth. 14 Rules approved by the Court in its XLIX Ordinary Period of Sessions, held November 16-25, 2000 and partially reformed during the LXXXII Ordinary Period of Sessions, held January 19-31, 2009, in conformity with Articles 71 and 72 of the same.

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