4 continuity of the exhumation, identification and return of the remains of those victims in accordance with the desires of their families. This mechanism must also facilitate the complete identification of the relatives of the executed victims, so that they can be eligible for the reparations called for in the previous recommendation; c) Render ineffective the General Amnesty Law for the Consolidation of Peace as it prevents the investigation, trial and sanction of those responsible for human rights violations and the rights of victims to truth, justice, and reparation. Also, any other de jure or de facto obstacles, such as judicial or investigative practices, must be eliminated; d) Regardless of the above, the State should proceed immediately to investigate in an impartial, effective manner and within a reasonable time with the purpose to establishing the facts in a complete form, identify the intellectual and material authors and impose the sanctions that correspond. In the immediate fulfillment of this obligation, the Salvadorian authorities cannot invoke the validity of the General Amnesty Law for the Consolidation of Peace; e) Take the corresponding administrative, disciplinary or criminal actions to sanction the actions or omissions of the State officials who contributed to the denial of justice and the impunity in which are the facts of the case or who participated in actions to hinder the processes designed to identify and punish those responsible; and h) Take the measures necessary to prevent similar events in the future, in observance of the duty to respect and guarantee human rights recognized in the American Convention. In particular, implement permanent programs on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the Armed Forces Training Schools. The violations that occurred in this case affect the inter-American public interest and continue to date due to the generalized impunity of the acts. The IACHR concluded in Report 177/10 that the Massacres of El Mozote and neighboring locations were committed precisely during the cruelest period of the wrongly denominated “counterinsurgency” operations performed by the Salvadorian army, in a massive way, against civilians during the armed conflict, and in open disregard of the most basic principles underlying the International Law of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. These massacres were committed indiscriminately and with extreme cruelty, to a regrettable balance of approximately 1,000 people, including an alarming number of children. The systematic and generalized nature of those actions, the purpose of which was to sow terror among the population, has been recognized on several occasions, and it may be concluded that the massacres constituted one of the most aberrant manifestations of crimes against humanity committed at that time by the Salvadoran military.