2 4. The briefs of June 13th, July 10th, and September 8, 2008 and of May 12th, July 1st and 24th, and November 2, 2009 and their annexes, as well as other additional briefs, through which the State informed on the matters pending compliance of the Judgment and forwarded a time line for compliance of the same (hereinafter “the Time Line”). 5. The briefs of March 19th, July 25th, and October 9, 2008 and of November 17, 2009 and their annexes, among other briefs presented, through which the representatives of the victims (hereinafter “the representatives”) presented their observations to that informed by the State and to the Time Line. 6. The briefs of August 29th and December 31, 2008, through which the InterAmerican Commission of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) forwarded its observations to the State’s reports and to the representatives’ observations. Up to the date on which the present Order is being issued, the Commission had not presented observations to the Time Line. 7. The Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of August 5, 2009, through which, in consultation with the other Judges of the Tribunal, she summoned the parties to a private hearing for monitoring compliance with Judgment. 8. The arguments and the information provided by the parties at the private hearing for monitoring compliance with the Judgment of September 30, 2009, held during the LXXXIV Regular Session of the Court, in the city of San José, Costa Rica1. CONSIDERING: 1. That monitoring compliance with its judgments is a power inherent to the judicial functions of the Court. 2. That Paraguay has been a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the Convention”) since August 24, 1989 and it acknowledged the contentious jurisdiction of the Court on March 26, 1993. 3. That Article 68(1) of the American Convention states that “[t]he States Parties to the Convention undertake to comply with the judgment of the Court in any case to which 1 Pursuant with Article 6(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the Court held the hearing with a commission of Judges made up by: Judge Diego García-Sayán, President in exercise; Judge Manuel E. Ventura Robles, and Judge Margarette May Macaulay. The following parties appeared at the hearing: a) for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights: Florentín Meléndez, Commissioner, and Karla Quintana Osuna, specialist of the Executive Secretariat; b) for the State: Oscar B. Llanes Torres, Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay in Costa Rica; Inés Martínez Valinotti, Director of Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Marco Antonio Alcaraz, Deputy Prosecutor in charge of the Area of Human Rights; Iris Rojas, General Human Rights Director of the Ministry of Justice and Labor; Rocardo González Borgne, General Cabinet Director of the National Secretariat for Children and Teenagers; Raúl Sapena Jiménez, Attorney of the Treasury; Diana Vargas Human Rights Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; Lorena Cristaldo, Special Prosecutor of the Attorney eneral of the Republic; Gustavo Rodríguez, Leal Advisor of the Staff of the Ministry of Health and Social Wellbeing; Gladys González, Head of the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Health and Social Wellbeing; Federico Fabián Gill Ramírez, Legal Advisor of the General Administrative and Financial Office of the Treasury, and Belen Morra, Head a.i. of the Department of Follow-Up to Compliance with Judgments of the Court, and c) for the victims and their next of kin: Alejandra Arancedo and Sergio Fuenzalida of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).