39 the manner and the place in which such violations were effected have resulted in immense suffering for the victims and for their next of kin; and b) they requested the Court that, when fixing the sum payable for the non pecuniary damages sustained, it compensate, on equitable grounds, the pain, the anguish and the distress suffered by the victims and their next of kin as a result of the illegal detentions, the inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment and the forced disappearances of Messrs. Oscar José Blanco-Romero, Roberto Javier Hernández-Paz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández. Likewise, the Court must take into account the lack of information on the whereabouts of Messrs. Oscar José Blanco-Romero, Roberto Javier Hernández-Paz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández, the denial of justice ─basically resulting from a cover up pattern and from a serious impunity scheme─ and the concealing of the truth about what happened, all to the detriment of the next of kin of the aforementioned and of Venezuelan society. Arguments by the State 85. The State requested the Court to “order whatever be necessary to determine, within the circumstances of the case, the amount of a compensation commensurate with the intensity of the suffering the respective events caused to the victims and to their next of kin and with the other non pecuniary consequences [...] on equitable grounds.” Considerations by the Court 86. Non pecuniary damage may include distress and suffering, tampering with the person’s core values and alterations of a non pecuniary nature in the victim’s living conditions. As it is impossible to assess the value of non pecuniary damage in a precise equivalent in money, the purpose of fully compensating the victims can be served in but two ways. The first one is by paying the victim an amount of money or by delivering property or services the worth of which may be established in money, such as the Court may determine, by exercising reasonably its judicial discretion and applying equitable standards. The second one is by public actions or works reaching the general public, the effect of which, among others, be to recognize the victim’s dignity and to avoid recurrence of human rights violations.52 87. The Judgment, according to repeated international precedents, constitutes, in and of itself, a form of reparation.53 However, considering the circumstances of the instant case, the sufferings the events have caused the victims herein, the alterations they all sustained in their living conditions and all the other consequences of a non pecuniary nature they had to bear, the Court deems fit that compensation be paid, on equitable grounds, for non pecuniary damages. 88. In the first place, the Court considers that the circumstances of the detentions and subsequent disappearances of Messrs. Oscar José Blanco-Romero, Roberto Javier Hernández-Paz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández (supra paras. 51(3), 52 Cf. Case of the “Mapiripán Massacre”, supra note 1, para. 282; Case of Gutiérrez-Soler, supra note 1, para. 82; and Case of Acosta- Calder��n, supra note 44, para. 158. 53 Cf. Case of the “Mapiripán Massacre”, supra note 1, para. 285; Case of Raxcacó-Reyes, supra note 1, para. 131; y Case of Gutiérrez-Soler, supra note 1, para. 83.