10 17. That it is appropriate to recall that, in the terms of the Judgment,11 for the effective compliance of this obligation the State shall: a) remove all the obstacles, de facto y de jure, that maintain impunity; b) use all available means to expedite the investigation and the respective proceedings, and c) grant adequate guarantees of security to the next of kin of the persons disappeared and deprived of life, investigators, witnesses, human rights defenders, judicial employees, prosecutors and other agents of the justice system, as well as to the former and actual inhabitants of Pueblo Bello. Similarly, the State was required to adopt the administrative, legislative and any other pertinent measures to ensure that the human rights violations committed were investigated effectively in proceedings in which all judicial rights are granted so as to combat the partial impunity that exists in this case and, thus, avoid the repetition of such serious events as those that occurred in the Pueblo Bello massacre. The State had to inform the Court, every six months, of the measures adopted in this regard and, specifically, of the results obtained, as well as publicly disseminate the results of those proceedings, in order to inform the Colombian society of the truth regarding the facts of the present case. 18. That the Court considers that an impunity still subsists in the present case, in the measure that the whole truth regarding the facts has not been determined, specially in what refers to the identification and possible punishment of the responsible planners and perpetrators. The Tribunal hopes that the difficulties that have arisen in the implementation of this measure of reparation, as well as the concerns expressed, can be overcome as soon as possible in order to effectively and fully comply with this obligation. In order to continue monitoring this matter, this Court requires that the State, according to the stipulations in the Judgment itself, continue presenting complete and updated information every six months regarding the progress of the investigations and the totality of the actions carried out in this sense. Namely, of the mechanisms through which the inclusion of information and/or relevant documents produced in the framework of other domestic mechanisms is made possible, as well as the reasons for which some of the people accused or convicted have not been captured and the measures to be adopted in that sense. * * * Search for and identification of the disappeared victims (ninth and tenth operative paragraphs of the Judgment) 19. That regarding the obligation to adopt forthwith the appropriate measures to seek and identify the disappeared victims, as well as return their mortal remains to their next of kin, the State informed it had carried out different actions and taken on a constant investigative activity in which several tests were performed, among which it can mention the recollection of DNA along with its corresponding comparisons; the taking of statements; elaboration of photograph albums; judicial inspections; investigations at the “Las Tangas” estate, and preparation of photographic blueprints. Additionally, it stated that it ordered a diligence to exhume the osseous remains of 6 people buried in the cemetery of Pueblo Bello. It also mentioned meetings held with the representatives on March 5 and April 10, 2008, in which they agreed on methodological strategies for the search of the mortal remains and solutions for the inconveniences that exist in order to be able to carry out the investigative actions. The 11 Cf. Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre v. Colombia, supra note 10, paras. 267 through 269.

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