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the supervision of the activities of the Work Group, to be integrated by civilians, with
a special seat for the Special Secretariat of Human Rights of the Presidency of the
Republic [hereinafter “the SEDH”] and mainly, for the Comisión Especial sobre
Muertos y Desaparecidos Políticos [Special Commission on the Murdered and
Disappeared by Politics] (Act 9.140/1995), which includes, among its members,
representatives of the next of kin of the murdered and disappeared; and for the
Federal Public Ministry, which has among its constitutional functions to inspect the
acts of the Executive Power.” Likewise, it pointed out that according to “what was
informed by the Ministry of Defense […] the participation of the Army in the activities
will be restricted to the logistics support in the search of locations, guaranteeing
technical resources for the location and [exhume] of the bodies. The activities of
location and excavation will be carried out by expert professionals in the area of
forensic anthropology, members of the [Work Group].”
9.
That, additionally, in response to the request for complementary information by
the Inter-American Court, the State informed:
i) the alteration of the coordination of the Work Group; which will be in charge
of the Juridical Consultant of the Ministry of Defense determining also, the role
of the Army Command. The State submitted a copy of the Orders in which these
changes are stated;
ii) the plans for the creation of an Inter-Institutional Supervision Commitee
(hereinafter “the Commitee”), which composition is being evaluated by the
SEDH and the Ministry of Defense, with the supervision of the President of the
Republic. The commitee must be integrated by representatives of State bodies,
like the SEDH, and civilians, and it will function during the time the Work Group
does its activities. As for the assignments of the Commitee: a) it should monitor
the work of the Work Group, supervising the excavations and recovery of the
mortal remains; b) it may receive information and statements that will help in
the location of the bodies; c) it might, depending on the circumstances, podrá,
dependiendo de la circunstancias, opt to propose judicial measures to deepen
the searches and collecting of information, such as precautionary request of
collecting of documents and others; d) it should examine the reports of the
Work Group and demand results; and e) it will submit complementary advice,
suggesting places to search, and it will elaborate its own report;
iii) that the excavations should begin on August, and it repeated that the
technicians who integrate the Work Group (anthropologists, geologists, etc.)
shall be responsible for the location, collecting and preparing of the civilians’
mortal remains;
iv) that while the Commitee is not set up, “the supervision of the collection of
information has been and will continue to be in charge of the Judicial Power,
executing the judgment rendered by the First Federal Court”;
v) the activities and composition of the Work Group, as well as the creation of
the Commitee, have been object of wide discussion, among others by the
Ministry of Defense, the SEDH, the Federal Public Ministry, the Judicial and