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8.
As required by the Resolution of January 20, 1989, the Commission submitted its opinion
on March 1, 1989. It asserted that the just compensation to be paid by Honduras to the family of
Manfredo Velásquez should include the following:
1.
The adoption of measures by the State of Honduras which express its
emphatic condemnation of the facts that gave rise to the Court's judgment.
In particular, it should be established that the Government has an obligation
to carry out an exhaustive investigation of the circumstances of the
disappearance of Manfredo Velásquez and bring charges against anyone
responsible for the disappearance.
2.
The granting to the wife and children of Manfredo Velásquez of the following
benefits:
3.
a)
Payment to the wife of Manfredo Velásquez, Mrs. Emma Guzmán
Urbina, of the highest pension recognized by Honduran law.
b)
Payment to the children of Manfredo Velásquez, Héctor Ricardo, Nadia
Waleska and Herling Lizzett Velásquez Guzmán, of a pension or subsidy
until they complete their university education, and
c)
Title to an adequate house, equivalent to the house of a middle class
professional family.
Payment to the wife and children of Manfredo Velásquez of a cash amount
corresponding to the resultant damages, loss of earnings, and emotional
harm suffered by the family of Manfredo Velásquez, to be determined by the
Illustrious Court based upon the expert opinion offered by the victim's
family.
9.
On March 10, 1989, the attorneys submitted a pleading in which they assert that, in
conformity with Article 63 of the Convention, reparation should be moral as well as monetary.
The measures they request as moral reparation are the following:
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A public condemnation of the practice of involuntary disappearances carried
out between 1981 and 1984;
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An expression of solidarity with the victims of that practice, including
Manfredo Velásquez. Public homage to those victims by naming a street,
thoroughfare, school or other public place after them;
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An exhaustive investigation of the phenomenon of involuntary disappearances
in Honduras, with special attention to the fate of each of the disappeared. The
resulting information should be made known to the family and the public;
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Prosecution and appropriate punishment of those responsible for inciting,
planning, implementing or covering up disappearances, in accord with the
laws and procedures of Honduras.
In their opinion, the cash indemnity paid to the family of Manfredo Velásquez should include the
following: damages, two hundred thousand lempiras; loss of earnings, two million four hundred
and twenty-two thousand four hundred and twenty lempiras; emotional damages, four million