138 pecuniary damage caused. Reparations should entail neither enrichment nor impoverishment for the victim or the victim’s heirs.277 246. The Court must reiterate its consternation regarding the grave facts of the instant case, which have a series of effects when reparations are set. It was established that the objective of the modus operandi of the massacre was to make the identification of executed or missing victims difficult or impossible, by destroying evidence, intimidating and displacing the inhabitants of the municipality of Mapiripán. The State has recognized the existence of approximately 49 executed or missing victims, but only close to half of then have been individually identified. This resulted from non-fulfillment by the State of its duties to protect the victims and the next of kin during the massacre, from actions and omissions by its agents who collaborated with the paramilitary, as well as from lack of diligence by the State in the investigations, which has led to a situation in which, to date, most of the next of kin of the other persons executed or missing have not even attempted to file complaints before the authorities regarding their missing next of kin, and since then no other victims or next of kin have been identified. 247. In light of the criteria set forth above, and of the circumstances of the instant case, the Court will now analyze the claims filed by the Commission and by the representatives regarding reparations, with the aim of ordering measures to redress the damage in the instant case. The Court states its deep concern regarding the situation of the unidentified victims, for whose death the State also acknowledged its responsibility, as well as regarding that of their next of kin. While the approximately 49 victims acknowledged by the State as well as their next of kin, will be beneficiaries of other forms of reparation and/or the compensation set for nonpecuniary damages, for lack of information the Court abstains from ordering compensation for pecuniary damages in favor of those victims and their next of kin who have not been individually identified in this proceeding. However, the Court states that setting of reparations in this international instance neither obstructs nor precludes the possibility of the next of kin of unidentified victims filing the appropriate complaints before the national authorities, as they come to be identified, including the means ordered in this Judgment (infra paras. 308 and 257.b)). A) 248. BENEFICIARIES Pleadings of the Commission a) given the nature of the case, the beneficiaries cannot be fully identified until the State completes a serious and exhaustive investigation that elucidates the scope of the damage caused by the massacre, including full identification of the victims. Victims identified in the future, as well as their next of kin, must be considered beneficiaries of the reparations, regarding pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages; b) when the application was filed, the following beneficiaries’ names were known: 277 See Case of Acosta Calderón, supra note 7, para. 148; Case of the Indigenous Community Yakye Axa, supra note 12, para. 182, and Case of Caesar, supra note 274, para. 123.

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