100 XI OPERATIVE PARAGRAPHS 125. Therefore, THE COURT, unanimously, DECLARES THAT: 1. This judgment constitutes, per se, a form of reparation, in the terms of paragraph 81 hereof. AND ORDERS: unanimously, 1. The State shall investigate effectively the facts of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre in order to identify, prosecute and punish the perpetrators and masterminds, in the terms of paragraphs 94 to 99 of this judgment. 2. The State shall organize a public act to acknowledge its responsibility for the events that occurred in this case and to make reparation to its victims. The act must be carried out in the village of Plan de Sánchez, where the massacre occurred, in the presence of senior State authorities and, particularly the members of the Plan de Sánchez community and the other victims in this case, inhabitants of the villages of Chipuerta, Joya de Ramos, Raxjut, Volcanillo, Coxojabaj, Las Tunas, Las Minas, Las Ventanas, Ixchel, Chiac, Concul and Chichupac; the leaders of these affected communities must participate in this act. The State shall provide the necessary means to facilitate the presence of these people in the act. Furthermore, the State shall conduct the act in both Spanish and Maya-Achí and publicize it in the media, in the terms of paragraphs 100 and 117 of this judgment. 3. During this same act, the State shall publicly honor the memory of those executed in the Plan de Sánchez massacre carried out by State agents on July 18, 1982, in the terms of paragraphs 101 and 117 of this judgment. 4. The State shall translate the American Convention on Human Rights into Maya-Achí, if this has not been done already, and also the judgment on merits delivered by the Court on April 29, 2004, and this judgment. The State shall also provide the necessary resources to publicize these texts in the municipality of Rabinal and deliver them to the victims in this case, in the terms of paragraphs 102 and 117 of this judgment. 5. The State shall publish, within one year from notification of this judgment, at least once, in the official gazette and in another daily newspaper with national circulation, in Spanish and in Maya-Achí, the section entitled Proven Facts in Chapter V, and the first to fourth operative paragraphs of the judgment on merits delivered by the Court on April 29,2004, and also Chapter VII, entitled Proven Facts (without the footnotes), and the first declaratory point and the first to ninth operative paragraphs of this judgment, in the terms of paragraphs 103 and 117.

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