40 de Verdad y Reconciliación (National Truth and Reconciliation Commission).”105 To that effect, a monthly pension was granted to the next of kin of the victims of human rights violations or political violence,106 they were granted the right to receive certain free medical 107 and educational benefits,108 and the children of the victims were exempted from military service, if summoned to do it.109 82(30) On November 11, 2003, Supreme Decree No. 1.040 was published in the Official Gazette, whereby the Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture) was created to find the truth regarding the individuals who were deprived of freedom and tortured for political reasons within the period of the de facto military Government.110 Moreover, in its final report the Commission proposed symbolic collective and individual reparation measures (embodied in Law No. 19.992). 82(31) On October 29, 2004, Law No. 19.980 was passed. Said Law amended Law No. 19.123 (supra para. 82(29)) by broadening and adding new benefits for the next of kin of the victims, including a 50 percent increase in the amount of the monthly reparation pension; the empowerment of the President of the Republic to grant a maximum of 200 non-contributory pensions and the broadening of the scope of health benefits.111 82(32) In addition to the foregoing, the State adopted the following reparation measures: i) Programa de Apoyo a los Presos Políticos (Political Prisoners Support Program) for individuals kept in custody as of March 11, 1990; ii) Programa de Reparación y Atención Integral de Salud (PRAIS) (Comprehensive Health Service and Reparation Program) for those affected by human rights violations; iii) Programa de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio del Interior (Human Rights Program of the Department of the Interior); iv) technological improvements for the Legal Medical Service; v) Oficina Nacional del Retorno (National Return Office); vi) Programa para Exonerados Políticos (Political Exoneration Program); vii) restitution of or compensation for property seized and acquired by the State; viii) the setting of the Mesa de Diálogo sobre Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Conversation Table), and 105 Cf. Article 1 of Law No. 19.123, published in the Official Gazette on February 8, 1993, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folio 3383). 106 Cf. Articles 17 to 27 of Law No. 19.123, published in the Official Gazette on February 8, 1993, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folios 3389 to 3392). 107 Cf. Article 28 of Law No. 19.123, published in the Official Gazette on February 8, 1993, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folio 3393). 108 Cf. Articles 29 to 31 of Law No. 19.123, published in the Official Gazette on February 8, 1993, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folios 3393 to 3394). 109 Cf. Article 32 of Law No. 19.123, published in the Official Gazette on February 8, 1993, (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 3, folio 3394). 110 Cf. Report of the Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture), (record of appendixes to the State’s final written arguments, Appendix 4, folio 3430). 111 Cf. Law No. 19.980, published in the Official Gazette on October 29, 2004, (record of appendixes to the answer to the application, folios 376 to 379).