11 (or their next of kin) and guarantees of non-recidivism of the injurious facts, in the framework of the realization of justice- is undeniably important. Rejection of indifference and oblivion, and guarantees of non-recidivism of the violations, are expressions of solidarity between the victims and the potential victims, in the violent world, empty of values, in which we live. It is, ultimately, an eloquent expression of the ties of solidarity that link the living to their deceased ones.45 Or, more precisely, of the ties of solidarity that join the deceased ones to those who survive them, as if the former were saying to the latter: do not do to others what they did to us and to our surviving parents, so that they and their children can continue to have a simple and happy life, perhaps unknowingly. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary 45 . Regarding these ties of solidarity, see my Separate Opinions in the Bámaca Velásquez versus Guatemala case (Judgments of the Inter-American Court on the merits, on the 25.11.2000, and on reparations, on the 22.02.2002).