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Serrano Guzmán, attorneys at the Executive Secretariat of the IACHR will serve as legal
advisors.
In accordance with Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American
Court, the Commission is enclosing with this communication a copy of Report 177/10
prepared in accordance with Article 50 of the American Convention, as well as three
annexes related to the identification of the victims by the Commission until the time of
the adoption of the above-mentioned report. The Commission is also enclosing a copy
of the entire file before the Inter-American Commission (Appendix I) and the annexes
used in drafting Report 177/10 (Annexes). Said merits report was notified to the El
Salvadorian State by means of communication of November 22, 2010, granting it a twomonth term to report on the implementation of the recommendations. When deciding on
the merits of the case, the Inter-American Commission concluded that the State of El
Salvador is internationally responsible for:
a) The violation of the rights to life, to humane treatment and to personal
liberty enshrined in Articles 4, 5, and 7 of the American Convention in
relation to article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of the victims who were
executed extrajudicially;
b) The violation of the special obligations with respect to children
established in Article 19 of the American Convention, in relation to
Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of the children who were
executed extrajudicially;
c) The violation of the rights to humane treatment and privacy enshrined
in Articles 5 and 11 of the American Convention, to the detriment of
the women who were raped in the village of El Mozote;
d) The violation of the Right to property enshrined in Article 21 of the
American Convention in relation to article 1(1) thereof, to the
detriment of the murdered victims who were stripped of their property,
as well as the survivors whose homes were destroyed or whose
means of livelihood were stolen or eliminated;
e) The violation of the right to humane treatment enshrined in Article 5 of
the American Convention in relation to article 1(1) thereof, to the
detriment of the survivors and next-of-kin of the executed victims;
f)
The violation of the right to freedom of movement and residence
enshrined in Article 22 of the American Convention in relation to
Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of the persons who were forcibly
displaced; and
g) The violation of the rights to a fair trial and judicial protection
enshrined in Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention in relation
with the obligations established in articles 1(1) and 2 thereof, with
Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and
Punish Torture, and with Article 7 of the Convention of Belém do
Pará, to the detriment of the survivors and relatives of the executed
victims.