59 v) b) besides the satisfaction consisting in the investigation and punishment of those responsible for the death of Mr. Almonacid-Arellano, the Court should instruct the State to: i) ii) iii) 141. make full and adequate reparation to Mr. Almonacid-Arellano’s next of kin, including any compensation additional to those already obtained by the family, which may be deemed relevant, for pecuniary and moral damage; as well as the legal costs and expenses incurred by the victims in processing the case at the domestic level and those incurred in processing the instant case before the Inter-American system. acknowledge the impunity that has prevailed in the instant case and the obstacles that hindered the realization of justice for many years, including a public, worthy, and significant apology, all of it in consultation with the victim’s next of kin; publicly announce the outcome of the internal investigation and punishment proceedings, in order to endorse the right to know the truth of Mr. Almonacid-Arellano’s next of kin and of the Chilean society as a whole, and adopt the necessary measures to have the decision of the Court published for didactic purposes. Arguments of the representative a) “it is not in the interest of Mr. Almonacid-Arellano’s next of kin to obtain pecuniary benefits.” Their interest lies in achieving justice. “Reparations should be preventive, and prevention entails not only punishing those who are guilty and knowing the truth, but also awarding pecuniary compensation for the damage caused to the victims. To [the victims’ next of kin] that is the least important issue [,] indeed, […] if the Chilean State accepts and acquiesces to the application filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, they waive any compensation, because what they are interested in is truth and justice, and, of course, the punishment of those who are guilty;” b) he acknowledges that Mrs. Gómez-Olivares, since March 1992 has been receiving a pension, which initially neared $56,000.00 (fifty-six thousand Chilean pesos) and currently amounts to $347,321.00 (three hundred forty- seven thousand three hundred and twenty-one Chilean pesos) per month. He further acknowledges that, at the beginning of 2005, Mr. Almonacid-Arellano’s children, Alfredo, Alexis, and José Luis Almonacid-Gómez received a single payment of $10,000,000 (ten million Chilean pesos) each. It is also true that the youngest of them, José Luis, pursued his studies with a State scholarship; c) the foregoing amounts and the scholarship received result from the murder of Mr. Almonacid-Arellano, but they do not constitute the reparation that arises from this international action, that is to say, the one derived from the denial of justice, inasmuch as it entails moral damage for the “unquantifiable” effort made during 23 years to seek justice;

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