91 a) Owing to impact of the Plan de Sánchez massacre on the municipality of Rabinal, non-pecuniary reparation should be made at the community level. The beneficiaries of community psychosocial reparation are the survivors of the massacre, and also the second and subsequent generations. The purpose of the psychosocial reparation is to recover the historical memory, dignify the next of kin who died in the massacre and provide elements that ensure that no more human rights violations occur. To achieve these objectives, they proposed that the Court should order the State: i) To establish a training program for 50 teachers a year on issues relating to the psychosocial effects of the political violence in Guatemala, for a period of four years. The program can be implemented by the non-governmental organization, Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Acción Psicosocial [Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team], accompanied by two psychology professionals from the Health Ministry; ii) To establish a two-year training and awareness-raising program on the effects of the political violence in Guatemala and its repercussions on the physical and mental health of the population, for health personnel from the Rabinal municipal Health Center and from other centers attached to it, who work in the communities of the municipality; iii) To declare September 15 the official date for commemorating the victims of the municipality of Rabinal, because the first massacre in this municipality took place on that date. The municipality should allocate a budget envelope for the commemoration of this day, and iv) To allocate part of the budget to the community of Plan de Sánchez, for commemorating July 18, 1982, the day of the massacre. b) At the family and individual level, the Health Ministry should implement a three-year mental health program, to which it should appoint two full-time psychologists and a part-time psychiatrist. The Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team could be in charge of training these three individuals. The beneficiaries of this program will be the survivors of the massacre, the next of kin, and the neighbors, whose mental health has been affected by the Plan de Sánchez massacre and subsequent events. The psychosocial care would consist of self-help groups of 25 individuals from each of the communities affected by massacres; workshops with youths from the communities; home visits to those who take part in the self-help groups; individual psychological treatment for 30 individuals from the communities affected by the massacre; medical treatment to avoid physical ailments due to psychosomatic disorders, and targeted individual psychological treatment for the women who were raped; c) The people of the municipality of Rabinal, who are mostly Maya-Achí, were the direct victims of genocidal acts during the internal armed conflict. Consequently, the Court should order the State to erect a monument in the central square of Rabinal, in memory of all the Maya-Achí victims of the municipality. The form and significance of the monument should be consulted

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