-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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