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kin (hereinafter “the representatives”) expressed their concern regarding the State’s failure
to comply with the measures of reparation in relation to medical and psychological
treatment, creation of a genetic information database, and establishment of a national
tracing commission.
4.
On January 9, 2007, the Office of the Ombudsman (Procuraduría para la Defensa de
los Derechos Humanos) of the State of El Salvador submitted a document entitled “Second
Report of the [said] Ombudsman […] regarding compliance by the State of El Salvador with
the Judgment issued by the Court […] in the case of the sisters Ernestina and Erlinda
Serrano Cruz.”
5.
The brief of January 24, 2007, and its appendixes, in which the State presented the
report on Compliance with Judgment, in response to the request contained in the second
operative paragraph of the Order of September 22, 2006 (supra Having seen paragraph 2).
Also, the communication of November 28, 2006, and its appendixes, in which El Salvador
advised that it had paid the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda the relevant amount to reimburse its
costs and expenses. In brief, El Salvador indicated that:
(a)
Regarding the obligation to investigate and undertake a genuine search for
the victims, it referred to the criminal proceedings before the Chalatenango Trial
Court and the measures taken;
(b)
Regarding the “establishment of a national commission to trace young people
who disappeared during the armed conflict when they were children, with the
participation of civil society”:
i)
It referred to the work undertaken by the Inter-institutional
Commission for Tracing Disappeared Children as a Consequence of the Armed
Conflict (hereinafter “Inter-institutional Tracing Commission”) since January
2006; to the investigations it has carried out, and to the professionals who
are members of the Commission, and indicated, inter alia, that of “the 79
cases registered, 52 have been investigated, and 17 cases have been
resolved”;
ii)
It referred to the different State institutions that have responded to
the requests for information by the Inter-institutional Tracing Commission.
They included the Second Court for the Protection of Minors, the Office of the
Public Prosecutor (Procuraduría General) of the Republic, the National
Register of Natural Persons (RNPN), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Salvadoran Institute for the Integral Development of Children and
Adolescents (ISNA), the Ministry of Governance, and the Ministry of National
Defense. Support had also been received from the consulates of El Salvador
in several countries;
iii)
“To ensure that governmental institutions provide the required
information, each institution that forms part of the Commission has appointed
a liaison person within the institution, which permits them to have easy
access to the information requested during the investigations,” and “the
heads of the institutions which are members of the commission have
expressed their willingness and commitment to provide the information
requested.”
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