157 b) at the time of their disappearance, two of the victims were minors: Diego Armando Martínez Contreras and Hugo Fernando Martínez Contreras. Therefore, it must be assumed that the suffering caused by the facts in this case was especially intense with regard to said minors. For this reason, compensation for the harm mentioned in the previous paragraph must be set in fairness, adding US$ 10,000.00 (ten thousand United States dollars), which will accrue to the aforementioned amount; c) some of the next of kin who personally suffered the facts in the massacre have been identified and have been declared victims of violation of their right to humane treatment, which must be taken into account. While it is impossible for the Court to clearly establish which next of kin of the victims, whether or not they have been individually identified, were in Mapiripán during the days in which the facts took place, it is reasonable to assume that under the circumstances of this case all the next of kin have deeply suffered the damage caused by the grief of losing a beloved one. Furthermore, said next of kin have suffered violations of the right to fair trial and the right to judicial protection; moreover, one of the objectives of the massacre was to terrorize the inhabitants, and this has led many of the next of kin to avoid filing complaints regarding what happened, to date (supra para. 96.47 and 96.175). Likewise, the Court takes into account that the remains of the vast majority of the victims have not been identified and delivered to their next of kin; only the next of kin of Sinaí Blanco Santamaría and José Rolan Valencia were able to bury the remains of their beloved one. Therefore, the Court deems that the harm caused must be compensated by payment, in favor of each next of kin, of the following amounts: i. US$ 50,000.00 (fifty thousand United States dollars) in the case of the mother, the father, the spouse or spouse or the common-law spouse and of each son and daughter; ii. US$ 8,500.00 (eight thousand five hundred United States dollars) in the case of sister or brother; and iii. in addition to these amounts, US$ 5,000.00 (five thousand United States dollars) will be paid to those who were boys and girls at the time of the massacre and lost beloved ones, as said suffering increased due to their situation as minors and the lack of protection by the State. 289. The Court will apply the provision set forth in the chapter on beneficiaries to the next of kin of the victims who have not been individually identified in this proceeding, which is that to receive the respective payments they must appear before the officials in charge of the official mechanism established for that purpose, within 24 months of the date when the State notifies them that their next of kin has been individually identified, and they must prove their relationship to or kinship with the victim, by means of adequate identification or of two attesting witnesses, as were the case (supra para. 257.b)). 290. Based on the above, compensation for non-pecuniary damages due to the violations found in the instant case, in favor of the victims who were individually identified and their next of kin, will be as follows:

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