ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 PROVISIONAL MEASURES ORDERED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF GUATEMALA COLOTENANGO CASE HAVING SEEN: 1. The June 22, 1994 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) whereby it resolved: 1. To require the Government of Guatemala to adopt without delay all necessary measures to protect the right to life and the personal integrity of PATRICIA ISPANEL MEDIMILLA, MARCOS GODINEZ PEREZ, NATIVIDAD GODINEZ PEREZ, MARIA SALES LOPEZ, RAMIRO GODINEZ PEREZ, JUAN GODINEZ PEREZ, MIGUEL GODINEZ DOMINGO, ALBERTO GODINEZ, MARIA GARCIA DOMINGO, GONZALO GODINEZ LOPEZ, ARTURO FEDERICO MENDEZ ORTIZ and ALFONSO MORALES JIMENEZ. 2. To request the Government of Guatemala to adopt all necessary measures to ensure that the aforementioned persons may continue to reside at or return to their homes in Colotenango, providing them the assurance that they shall not be persecuted or threatened by agents of the Government or by individuals. [...] 2. The December 1, 1994 decision of the Court whereby it extended the provisional measures adopted so as to include Mrs. Francisca Sales Martín, and required the State of Guatemala (hereinafter “the State” or “Guatemala”) “to use all the Means at its disposal to enforce the arrest warrants issued against the 13 patrol members charged as suspects in the case before the Second Trial Court of Huehuetenango involving the criminal acts which took place on August 3, 1993, in Colotenango”; 3. The Court’s February 1, 1996 Order which, in addition to the measures already taken, required the State to establish mechanisms to police and control the civil patrols operating in Colotenango; 4. The Court’s April 16, 1997 Order in which it directed the State to maintain the provisional measures adopted in the instant case so long as the situations of extreme gravity and urgency that necessitated the adoption of those measures persisted. 5. The Court’s September 19, 1997 Order, wherein it resolved: [...] * Judge Máximo Pacheco Gómez informed the Court that for reasons beyond his control he was unable to be present for part of the Court’s LII Regular Session, and therefore did not participate in the deliberations on this Order or affix his name thereto.