4 the Court on the State in favor of the next of kin of the Gómez Paquiyauri brothers. Arbitrarily detaining and mistreating these minors, subjecting them to torture and executing them, lying to the public by saying that they were terrorists killed in an armed confrontation with the forces of law and order, are very grave and unacceptable acts in a democratic system, committed to respect for the dignity of the human person. What happened in the case of the Gómez Paquiyauri brothers must move and greatly disturb Peruvian society and its authorities. If these facts had not been recorded by television, by chance, perhaps the truth would never have been known nor would the direct perpetrators have been punished, if only in part. The Truth and National Reconciliation Committee has documented thousands of cases of human rights violations that, at the time, did not have this possibility of elucidation. The case of the Gómez Paquiyauri brothers is especially painful because it involved the murder of a child and an adolescent who had committed no crime or misconduct, and who were executed in a cruel and pitiless manner by members of the police. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has finally given them and their next of kin justice. The Peruvian State must take on its responsibility, even though there is currently a government that strives to respect human rights and to comply with the judgments of the Court. Francisco José Eguiguren-Praeli Judge ad hoc Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri Secretary