161 c) the State must hold a public trial within a reasonable time against all the masterminds and direct perpetrators, and execute sentences that are proportional to their crimes; d) the State must remove de facto and legal obstructions that have impeded an effective criminal proceeding: i. it must investigate and prosecute all the members of the National Army who did not take the steps required to cooperate with the judicial authorities and avoid obstruction of evidence gathering by the paramilitary; ii. it must effectively execute the arrest warrants already issued by court authorities, including that regarding the situation of paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño; and iii. it must adopt such security measures as may be necessary to protect the lives and the physical integrity of the attorneys, witnesses, and State officials involved in this case; and e) the State must take such steps as may be necessary to find and identify the missing victims, and those whose dismembered and eviscerated bodies were thrown into the Guaviare River, so that their next of kin can complete the grieving process for the disappearance of their beloved ones and thus enable some degree of reparation of the harm caused. In this regard, the State must establish a committee to seek and identify the victims and next of kin and it must set up a fund to pay compensations due to the next of kin of as yet unidentified victims; 293. Pleadings of the State a) it is necessary to appreciate and give full effect to the acknowledgment of responsibility and to the apology made during the public hearing; b) the State has conducted serious and impartial investigations through its competent authorities and has attained decisive results. Actions by the judicial authorities in charge of the investigation and prosecution of those responsible have been effective, despite the complexity of the situation. Furthermore, it is necessary to recognize and support actions by the authorities to protect those affected or threatened by violence; c) with the aim of verifying and consolidating information on the alleged victims, between January 13 and 15, 2005 a technical-scientific team was set up, inter alia, to establish the feasibility of exhumation of bodies or finding osseous remains. Definitive reports are awaited; d) the Mayor’s Office in Mapiripán posted announcements requesting information on anyone who knew persons who disappeared during the facts of July 1997 and to date no complaints have been filed; e) the location and destination of some of the individuals who allegedly disappeared at the time of the facts have been established;