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However, in the reports presented after April 2009, the State has not provided further
information on the implementation of this measure and the representatives also have
not referred to its compliance after their observations of May 22, 2009. The Court
considers that it is desirable to request the parties to present up-to-date information on
the effective implementation of said diploma course, which shall include a study of the
instant case.
A scholarship for a specialization in human rights named so as to evoke the memory of
the victims
25.
In relation to the measure to set up a scholarship for a specialization in human
rights at the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública on a permanent basis, if
possible, for members of the judiciary (paragraph 277 (I)(6) of the Judgment), the
State, in its report of April 14, 2009, explained that said Higher Education School is
following administrative procedures to grant the scholarship.
26.
The representatives observed that the State has taken some actions to
implement this reparation measure, but the measure has not been fulfilled.
27.
The Commission noted that “it observe[d] with satisfaction” the information
presented by the State on the development of activities to honor the commitments
made, as well as the observations of the representatives that confirm the progress made
to that end, “and that it [was] waiting for information on the effective and full
implementation of all the aspects of the reparation.”
28.
The Court acknowledges that, according to the information provided by the
parties, the corresponding State institution may have taken steps towards the
implementation of this reparation measure. However, in the reports presented after
April 2009, the State has not provided further information on the implementation of this
measure and also the representatives have not referred to the compliance therewith
after the presentation of their observations of May 22, 2009. The Court considers that it
is desirable to request the parties to present updated and complete information on the
effective establishment of the scholarship, which, according to what was agreed upon,
shall be permanent and “be named in such a way that the memory of the victims of the
La Rochela Massacre is evoked. The name shall be mutually agreed upon between the
State and the representatives.”
To publish the facts of La Rochela Massacre
29.
As to the obligation by which the Presidential Human Rights Program should issue
a publication on the facts of the Rochela Massacre (paragraph 277.I.7 of the Judgment),
the State reported that in September 2008, said Presidential Program published the
book Voces contra el Olvido, Reconstruccion del caso de la Masacre de La Rochela
[Voices Against Forgetting, A Reconstruction of the Case of the La Rochelle Massacre] ,
the text of which was agreed upon with the victims’ representatives. The state also
mentioned that the book has five chapters “which completely reconstruct the facts, the
testimonies of the victims’ next-of-kin and it contains a brief introduction into the
general aspects of the inter-American System of Human Rights." Moreover, it
emphasized that it distributed copies of the book to the representatives in order to pass
them on to the next-of-kin and also to public and private entities, including the public
libraries of Bogota and Santander, “in order to guarantee its dissemination and society’s