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g)
Monument
315. The State must build an appropriate and dignified monument in remembrance
of the facts in the Mapiripán Massacre, as a measure to prevent such grave events
happening in the future. Said monument must be placed in an appropriate public
space in Mapiripán, within a year of notification of the instant Judgment.
h)
Human rights education
316. Bearing in mind that the Mapiripán Massacre was committed by paramilitary
who acted with the collaboration, tolerance and acquiescence of State agents,
breaching the imperative provisions of International Law, the State must take steps
to train the members of its armed forces and of its security agencies regarding the
principles and provisions for protection of human rights and of international
humanitarian law and on the limits to which it must be subject. Therefore, the State
must implement, within a reasonable time, permanent education programs on
human rights and international humanitarian law within the Colombian Armed
Forces, at all hierarchical levels.
317. Said programs must specifically refer to the instant Judgment, to international
human rights instruments and to international humanitarian law. In this regard, the
Constitutional Court of Colombia has pointed out, with regard to the obligations
derived from Protocol II to disseminate international humanitarian law, that
knowledge of said law “is an essential requirement for it to be respected by the
parties that oppose each other. Therefore […] all humanitarian law agreements
attach a special importance to the task of disseminating humanitarian rules, not only
among the opposing parties but also among the civilian population, for the latter to
be aware of its rights in the context of the armed conflict. Furthermore, […] the
State must disseminate them [and] and they must be studied in educational
institutions […] Specifically, [it is] indispensable for the members of the security
forces to be familiar with humanitarian rules, not only because they are natural
addressees of said regulations but also because the Constitution itself states that
they must receive human rights education […].”294
i)
Publication of the pertinent parts of the instant Judgment
318. The Court deems that, as a measure satisfaction, the State must publish
once, within six months of notification of the instant Judgment, in the official gazette
Diario Oficial and in another national daily, the section of this Judgment on Proven
Facts, without the respective footnotes, paragraphs 101 and 123 of the section on
International Responsibility of the State, as well as the operative section of this
Judgment.
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COSTS AND EXPENSES
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See judgment C-225/95 of May 18, 1995, issued by the Constitutional Court.
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