17 judgment of the Court bears witness to this, that expands the notion of victim in cases considered that all those affected to different victims, reflecting the differences in their reparation. All are victims, even though the specific circumstances of each of them. because following the line of thinking of massacres (paras. 92-95), it has degrees by the Ituango massacre are situation in the different forms of reparations vary in keeping with the 51. This judgment of the Court has thus, in my opinion, correctly contributed to expanding the concept of victims of grave human rights violations: all those affected by the massacre are victims, with juridical consequences that vary from one case to another. Consequently, the reparations are also different; they include, for example the guarantee of voluntary return of those forcibly displaced as a form of collective non-pecuniary reparation (and I consider that this is extremely important in the context of the immense human tragedy that afflicts Colombia). 68 In this way, an effort is made to mitigate the anguish of the surviving victims (whose lives will never be the same after the Ituango massacres), and to enhance their connection with their dead, by honoring the memory of the latter. And, finally, an effort was also made to reaffirm the necessary primacy of law over brute force. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri Secretary of the Complainant in the International Protection of Human Rights", pp. 243-299; A.A. Cançado Trindade, "O Esgotamento dos Recursos Internos e a Evolução da Noção de `Vítima' no Direito Internacional", 3 Revista del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (1986) pp. 5-78. 68 . In this judgment, the Court observed correctly that “the situation of internal forced displacement endured by the victims in this case cannot be separated from the other violations declared in this judgment." (para. 234), so that it also considered as victims the 702 (seven hundred and two) persons displaced from El Aro and La Granja (para. 238).

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