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).
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