6 to contract the services of Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, to aid in the process of exhuming and identifying the victims and gathering forensic evidence.” The representatives also reported that the State published the excerpts of the judgment on the merits and on reparations issued by the Court in this case in the daily “Ultimas Noticias” and in the official gazette, “thus complying with operative paragraph 5 of the August 29, 2002 judgment on reparations”, and that it deposited Bs. 136,170,000.00 (one hundred and thirty-six million one hundred and seventy thousand bolivares) warrant for payment in favor of the Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas (COFAVIC) of the incidents of February-March, “thus partly complying with point 10 of the operative section of the judgment on reparations.” 11. The February 13, 2004 brief with comments by the Inter-American Commission, in which they referred to the information supplied by the State and they pointed out that the latter: a) to date has not conducted a serious and effective investigation to identify and punish the direct perpetrators and masterminds of the facts of the Caracazo as well as the accessories after the fact; b) has not elucidated the facts regarding the forced disappearance of the victims, has not established their whereabouts and has not returned the remains of the victims to their next of kin, if that were the case; c) to date has conducted no investigation to identify, prosecute, and disciplinarily, administratively and criminally punish those responsible for the illegal burial of the corpses in the mass graves of the “la Peste” sector of the Cementerio General del Sur; has not continued the process of exhumation of the corpses, which came to a standstill in 1991, and e) has not adjusted the operational plans to address public order disturbances, nor has it trained its Armed and Police Forces on the principles of and rules for protection of human rights and on restrictions to the use of firearms. 12. The June 11, 2004 note by the State, in which it referred to the status of compliance with the judgment on reparations and it said that it was sending two folders with attachments. Said attachments were received on August 11, 2004, including the certified copies of files No. S-3940 of the Sixth Trial Court of Civil, Mercantile, and Traffic-related Affairs of the Court Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas and No. 58.600 the 11th Courtroom of the Court for Protection of Children and Adolescents of the Court Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas, certifying payment by Venezuela of the compensations ordered in the instant case, as well as the procedure to deposit the compensations owed to beneficiaries who are minors. 13. The September 23, 2004 brief by the representatives, in which they filed their comments on the information submitted by the State (supra Having Seen 12). In said brief, they pointed out that the State has made efforts to fulfill its obligation to compensate the next of kin of the victims and has published the excerpts of the judgments, but they stressed that it is necessary for Venezuela to fully comply with the other operative paragraphs of the judgment on reparations, such as: a) effective investigation of the facts and punishment of those responsible; b) identification and delivery of the remains of the victims to their next of kin; c) implementation of human rights training of the security forces, and d) adjustment of the operational plans to address public order disturbances. They also stated that the authorization by the Venezuelan National Assembly for the National Executive to decree an additional Bs. 8,918,014,600.00 (eight billion nine hundred and eighteen million fourteen thousand and six hundred bolivares) loan for payment of the compensations ordered by the Court in the judgment on reparations was published in the official gazette on December 4, 2003, and that on January 23, 2004 the State deposited

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