95 b) Public act acknowledging international responsibility to make reparation to the victims and to commemorate those executed in the massacre 100. In its judgment on merits of April 29, 2004 (supra para. 18), the Court stated that the State’s acknowledgment of responsibility made a positive contribution to the evolution of this proceeding and to the application of the principles that inspire the American Convention. The Court also recognizes that, during the public hearing held on April 24, 2004, the State manifested “its profound regret for the events endured and suffered by the Plan de Sánchez community on July 18, 1982, [and] apologize[d] to the victims, the survivors and the next of kin[,] as an initial sign of respect, reparation and guarantee of non-repetition.” However, for this declaration to be fully effective as reparation to the victims and serve as a guarantee of nonrepetition, the Court considers that the State must organize a public act acknowledging its responsibility for the events that occurred in this case to make reparation to the victims. The act should be carried out in the village of Plan de Sánchez, where the massacre occurred, in the presence of high-ranking State authorities and, in particular, in the presence of 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 also take part in the act. The State must provide the means to facilitate the presence of these persons in the said act. Also, Guatemala must conduct this act in both Spanish and in Maya-Achí, and publicize it in the media. The State shall carry out this activity within one year of notification of this judgment. 101. Bearing in mind the characteristics of the case as regards those who were executed in the Plan de Sánchez massacre, carried out by State agents on July 18, 1982, the Court considers that, during this act, the State must honor publicly the memory of those executed, most of them members of the Mayan indigenous people, belonging to the Achí linguistic community, who were the inhabitants of the village of Plan de Sánchez and also the villages of Chipuerta, Joya de Ramos, Raxjut, Volcanillo, Coxojabaj, Las Tunas, Las Minas, Las Ventanas, Ixchel, Chiac, Concul and Chichupac. The State must take into account the traditions and customs of the members of the affected communities in this act c) Translation of the judgments of the Court into the Maya-Achí language 102. The Court considers that the State must translate the American Convention on Human Rights into the Maya-Achí language, if this has not been done already, as well as the judgment on merits delivered by the Court on April 29, 2004, and this judgment. Guatemala must also provide the necessary resources to publicize these texts in the municipality of Rabinal and deliver them to the victims of the instant case. To this end, the State has one year from notification of this judgment. d) Publication of the pertinent parts of the judgments of the Court 103. Furthermore, and as it has ordered on other occasions,270 the Court considers that, as a measure of satisfaction, the State must publish, 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 270 Cf. Case of Tibi, supra note 3, para. 260; Case of the “Juvenile Reeducation Institute”, supra note 3, para. 315, and Case of Ricardo Canese, supra note 3, para. 209.

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