psychological and physical nature and on their life project, as well as other possible changes
in their social relationships and in their family and community dynamics,348 particularly in
the case of an indigenous community. This Court has established that this type of harm is
increased by the lack of support from State authorities in the search for and identification of
the remains of deceased victims, and the impossibility for the next of kin to honor their
loved ones appropriately.349 Accordingly, the Court has considered the need to grant diverse
measures of reparation in order to redress the harm comprehensively; thus, in addition to
the pecuniary compensations, measures of satisfaction, restitution, and rehabilitation and
guarantees of non-repetition are especially relevant owing to the gravity of the effects and
the collective nature of the harm caused350 in this case.
C.1.
Measures of satisfaction
C.1.1. Publication and dissemination of the Judgment
273. The Commission asked, in general, that the State be ordered to “[m]ake adequate
reparation for the human rights violations declared in the [merits] report, [… for] nonpecuniary damage, including […] publication of the historical truth of the events.” For their
part, the representatives requested the publication of the relevant parts of the judgment in
the State’s official gazette and in another newspaper with widespread circulation, once, and
within one year. They also requested the publication of the judgment, in Spanish and in the
Maya Achí language, on the official websites of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
branches of the State, as well as on the official webpage of the Presidential Commission for
Coordination of the Executive’s Human Rights Policies (COPREDEH), for at least one year. In
addition, they also the Court to establish, in equity, an amount for reproducing the
judgment in the Maya Achí language and distributing it among the communities that inhabit
the department of Baja Verapaz. In this regard, they asked that the said amount be
sufficient to execute the project for three years, “in order to guarantee full dissemination.”
The State undertook to “arrange with the Academy of Mayan Languages for the translation
of the judgment” into the Maya Achí language, and to organize the reproduction and
distribution requested by the representatives. It also undertook “to arrange with the three
branches of State [… for the publication of the judgment] in Spanish and Achí for at least
one year.”
274. The Court assesses positively and accepts the offer made by the State. Thus, and as
ordered on other occasions,351 the State must publish once, in the Spanish and Maya Achí
languages, in the official gazette and in another daily newspaper with national circulation,
the official summary of this Judgment. In addition, as the Court has ordered on previous
occasions, 352 this Judgment must be published in its entirety, in both languages, for at least
one year, on an official website of the State. The translation of the Judgment must be
approved by the representatives before being published. The publications in the newspapers
348
Cf. Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre v. Colombia, supra, para. 256, and Case of the Dos Erres Massacre
v. Guatemala, supra, para. 226.
349
Cf. Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre v. Colombia, supra, para. 256, and Case of the Dos Erres Massacre
v. Guatemala, supra, para. 226.
350
Cf. Case of the Mapiripán Massacre v. Colombia, supra, para. 294, and Case of the Dos Erres Massacre v.
Guatemala, supra, para. 226.
351
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs, supra, para. 79, and Case of the Kichwa
Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador, supra, para. 307.
352
Cf. Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador. Merits, reparations and costs, supra, para. 195, and
Case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador, supra, para. 307.
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