2 2. The Commission filed the application in this case for the Court to decide whether the State breached Articles 4 (Right to Life), 5 (Right to Humane Treatment) and 7 (Right to Personal Liberty) of the American Convention, to the detriment of the alleged victims of the alleged massacre carried out in Mapiripán, stated in the application. The Commission also asked the Court to decide whether the State breached Articles 8.1 (Right to Fair Trial) and 25 (Right to Judicial Protection) of the Convention, in combination with Article 1(1) (Obligation to Respect Rights) of said treaty, to the detriment of the alleged victims of the alleged massacre and their next of kin. When it filed the application, the Commission pointed out that “between July 15 and 20, 1997 […] approximately one hundred members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia[, …] with the collaboration and acquiescence of agents of the […] State, deprived of their liberty, tortured, and murdered at least 49 civilians, after which they destroyed their bodies and threw their remains into the Guaviare River, in the Municipality of Mapiripán, Department of Meta”. The Commission also pointed out that the alleged victims were “approximately 49 individuals”, of whom it identified ten individuals and some of their next of kin. 3. The Commission also asked the Court, in accordance with Article 63(1) of the Convention, to order the State to carry out several measures of pecuniary and nonpecuniary reparation, such as payment of costs and expenses incurred by the next of kin of the alleged victims under both domestic and international venues. II COMPETENCE 4. The Court is competent, under the terms of Article 62(3) of the Convention, to hear the instant case, since Colombia has been a State Party to the American Convention since July 31, 1973, and it accepted the adjudicatory jurisdiction of the Court on June 21,1985. III PROCEDURE BEFORE THE COMMISSION 5. On October 6, 1999 the Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo” and the Center for Justice and International Law (hereinafter “the petitioners”) filed a complaint before the Inter-American Commission. 6. On February 22, 2001, during its 110th session, the Commission adopted Admissibility Report Nº 34/01, in which it decided “that the case was admissible, in accordance with the requirements set forth in Articles 46 and 47 of the American Convention and with regard to the [alleged] violation of Articles 4, 5, 7, 8(1), 25 and 1(1) of [that Convention] to the detriment of 49 individuals [allegedly] executed at Mapiripán […]”. 7. On March 9, 2001 the Commission made itself available to the parties with the aim of attempting to reach a friendly settlement, in accordance with the American Convention and its own Rules of Procedure. The parties expressed no interest in such a settlement.