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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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