requested the creation of an inter-institutional commission to investigate the events that occurred in the municipality of Riosucio, Cacarica river basin. 449. The State indicated that the Social Solidarity Network had already made a “documentary video on the proceedings, and supported the production of a CD with songs alluding to the displacement and return of these communities.” In addition, it indicated that it had “co-financed the setting up of a community radio station in the Cacarica area.” The Commission did not present specific arguments in relation to these requests by the representatives and the State’s observations. 450. The Court does not find it necessary to order the measures requested by the representatives, because the delivery of this Judgment and the reparations ordered herein are sufficient and adequate. C.2. Measures of rehabilitation 451. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to guarantee “technical assistance for rehabilitation.” The representatives indicated that the State should: (a) improve the existing health centers in the humanitarian zones;706 (b) facilitate the training of health promoters,707 and accept victims with the appropriate training as health promoters; (c) ensure to all the victims, including those living in Turbo, affiliation to a “State health company,”708 and (d) promote the implementation of “bio-social assistance” programs in each settlement, as well as programs of psychosocial care.709 The State did not present specific arguments with regard to these requests of the Commission and of the representatives. 452. The Court recognizes and appreciates the achievements of the State authorities as regards proving health care services to the displaced population. However, owing to the sufferings of the victims, the Court, as it has in other cases,710 orders certain measures of rehabilitation. It does so, taking into account that, to date, according to the expert opinion of Juan Pablo Franco, the Ministry of Social Protection is designing a program of psychosocial assistance;711 in other words, that this has not yet entered into force and, consequently, these victims require appropriate psychosocial care, taking into account that the Constitutional Court itself has categorized their health coverage as “extremely poor.”712 706 The representatives considered that the existing health care centers should be improve by the provisions of personnel, equipment and medicines that ensure the provision of services free of charge. 707 According to the representatives, these community health promotors should be included on the Riosucio municipal payroll and be ensured prompt payment of their services. 708 The representatives asked that the State guarantee that the health care company attend to the victims effectively, providing special attention to those ailments that, owing to their severity, cannot be treated in the primary health care centers in each humanitarian zone. 709 The programs of psychosocial care requested by the representatives should “emphasize fear management and the mourning process,” and should be addressed, in particular, at developing the potential of the women victims; to this end, it is necessary to train promotors of psychosocial care from within the humanitarian zones. 710 Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs, para. 51, and Case of the Massacres of El Mozote and nearby places v. El Salvador, para. 352. 711 Cf. Affidavit prepared by Juan Pablo Franco, expert witness proposed by the State, on January 31, 2013 (evidence file, folio 15338). 712 In the opinion presented by the State’s expert witness, Juan Pablo Franco Jiménez, the latter advised that the Colombian Constitutional Court, in Ruling No. 219 of 2011, considered that it was not necessary to monitor the health care services provided by the Government to the displaced population, except for the access to health care services by the Afro-Colombian communities: “however, the Constitutional Court is permanently monitoring the effective access to health care services of the indigenous and Afro-Colombian communitis. In its opinion, coverage is “extremely low” in these communities, and it requested further information that revealed the actions being taken to correct these shortcomings in the provision of opportune and adequate health care to those communities.” Cf. Affidavit prepared by Juan Pablo Franco, expert witness proposed by the State, on January 31, 2013 (evidence file, folio 15367). 140

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