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together with their social security status or equivalent, and their income tax
statements, if any;
3.
Academic or professional degrees or special qualifications relevant to their
financial and social situation at the time of disappearance, and the title to any
property in their name;
4.
The names and status of their wives; and those of any concubines recognized
in any official document; the age of the former and the latter at the time of the
disappearances; any property in their name or other sources of income, and the
conjugal property rights of the wives (community property and others);
5.
The names and civil status of their children, those of the marriage and any
outside the marriage; their ages at the time of the disappearances; whether they
were students, and whether any are physically or mentally handicapped;
6.
The names and civil status of their parents, their ages at the time of the
disappearances; whether they had or have property or income of their own, and
whether they were or are dependents of the disappeared;
7.
The names, civil status, ages and situation of any other possible claimants
under Honduran law at the time of the disappearances, or any other person
recognized as a dependent in social security documents, tax statements or other
documents which might contain that information;
8.
Whether the disappeared had life insurance or other personal insurance, in
what amount, the period of coverage, and the names of the beneficiaries;
9.
Mortuary tables for men and women and commutation schedules (the latter
are used for future tax discounts in return for prompt payment) effective in Honduras
at the time of the disappearances;
10.
Certified copies of Honduran legislation regarding: a) legal heirs as defined by
civil and labor law; b) conjugal property rights (community property or other); c)
beneficiaries with rights to support payments, showing the criteria used to determine
support; d) beneficiaries of any government pensions based upon death or
permanent disability; e) Honduran legislative and jurisprudential criteria for
indemnification for death, accidental or non-accidental.
14.
On April 26, 1989, the Government submitted its response to the Commission's submission
of March 1, 1989 (supra 8). The pleading also refers to matters that, in its opinion, should be
taken into account in the indemnification of the family of Manfredo Velásquez. Regarding
measures to express its condemnation of the facts that gave rise to the judgment and its
obligation to investigate the disappearance of Manfredo Velásquez and prosecute those
responsible, the Government believes the Court's judgment of July 29, 1988 "is very clear and
precise regarding the obligation of Honduras to pay damages, which is to pay just compensation
to the family of the victim, and nothing more" (underlined in the original). Insofar as the benefits
the Commission believes should be paid to the wife of Manfredo Velásquez, the Government
believes that such payment "is only admissible insofar as whatever may be provided for by the
system to which Mr. VELASQUEZ RODRIGUEZ may have been affiliated."
It asserts that
damages, loss of earnings, and emotional harm are inadmissible because their purpose "is not
merely to compensate the VELASQUEZ RODRIGUEZ family, but . . . to pay the expenses of the
intense media campaign waged against Honduras within and outside the country by national and
foreign associations, and to pay the fees of lawyers and other professionals who cooperated with
the Commission in this case."