-93193. Consequently, the Court considers that the State must adopt all necessary measures to create a system of genetic information that allows genetic data that can contribute to determining and clarifying the relationships and identification of the disappeared children and their next of kin to be obtained and conserved.61 The State must comply with this reparation within a reasonable time. e) Public act to acknowledge responsibility and to make amends to the sisters, Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz, and their next of kin 194. As it has in other cases,62 the Court considers it necessary, in order to repair the damage caused to the victims and their next of kin and to avoid repetition of facts such as those of this case, to order the State to organize a public act acknowledging its responsibility for the violations declared in this judgment and to make amends to the victims and their next of kin. This act should be carried out by means of a public ceremony in the city of Chalatenango, in the presence of senior State authorities and members of the Serrano Cruz family.63 The State shall provide the necessary means to facilitate the presence of these persons at the said act.64 Also, the State shall disseminate this act through the media,65 and on the Internet. The State has one year from notification of this judgment to carry out this act. f) Publication of this judgment 195. Furthermore, and has it has ordered on other occasions,66 the Court considers that, as a measure of satisfaction, the State must publish at least once, in the official gazette and in another daily newspaper with national circulation, Chapter I entitled “Introduction of the case”, Chapter III entitled “Jurisdiction” and Chapter VI entitled “Proven Facts”, and also the operative paragraphs of this judgment. The Court also considers that a link should be established to the complete text of this judgment on the web search page for disappeared persons (supra paras. 189 to 191). The State must comply with the foregoing, within six months of notification of this judgment g) Designation of a day dedicated to the children who disappeared during the armed conflict 196. The Court considers that El Salvador should designate a day dedicated to the children who, for different reasons, disappeared during the internal armed conflict, in 61 Cf. Case of Molina Theissen. Reparations, supra note 4, para. 91(b). 62 Cf. Case of Carpio Nicolle et al., supra note 3, para. 136; Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Reparations, supra note 3, para. 100; and Case of the “Juvenile Reeducation Institute”, supra note 9, para. 316. 63 Cf. Case of Carpio Nicolle et al., supra note 3, para. 136; Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Reparations, supra note 3, para. 100; and Case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers, supra note 10, para. 234. 64 Cf. Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Reparations, supra note 3, para. 100. 65 Cf. Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Reparations, supra note 3, para. 100; and Case of Myrna Mack Chang, supra note 8, para. 278. 66 Cf. Case of Lori Berenson Mejía, supra note 3, para. 240; Case of Carpio Nicolle et al., supra note 3, para. 138; and Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Reparations, supra note 3, para. 103.

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