3 the Government's Attorney's Office, the State is carrying out a series of steps in connection with the second operative paragraph of the Judgment. In connection with the above, on September 2, 2009, Venezuela’s Government Attorney made certain statements that were ratified via the Government Prosecutor’s Office’s press release of September 10, 2009, whereby it was also announced that “the exhumation of the victims of the events that took place on February 27 and 28 and the early days of March 1989, which have come to be commonly known as ‘El Caracazo,’ will start at the General Southern Cemetery in Santa Rosalía parish in the Municipality of Libertador on Monday, September 21.” In this regard, the representatives addressed such statements and expressed their concern, among other things, over the following aspects, which they claim to be in conflict with said Judgment: a) The Government Prosecutor’s Office is proposing that exhumations be performed at the La Peste sector of the General Southern Cemetery, which seems to disregard the fact that the remains of the persons buried in the La Peste common graves have already been exhumed and that, as ordered by the Court, the State is still required to identify the victims in order that their remains can be released to the next of kin; b) The Government Prosecutor’s Office has commissioned the same forensic team that was involved in the identification and elucidation of the events, even though, according to them, the team’s action at said stage was inadequate. The representatives noted that said team is to include, among other people, the Director of the Army Command and the General Commander of National Guard Core No. 5. Moreover, it was their view that said forensic team is not independent relative to the conflict and, accordingly, such mechanism is not an adequate one for the relevant process stage. Accordingly, they suggest that the identification works be carried out by foreign experts, such as Argentina’s Team of Forensic Anthropology. They further noted that the September 10, 2009 press release also indicated that the representatives’ request for the appointment of international experts to carry out the identification of the victims had been denied. c) The Government Prosecutor’s Office is proposing that military authorities be in charge of providing security and protecting the site where the victims’ remains are located, as well as the Tiuna Fort site, where the forensic tests will be performed. According to the representatives, such Fort operates as headquarters for the Ministry of Defense and all sections of the National Armed Forces and the military jurisdiction in Caracas. In view of the above, the representatives stressed the inadequacy of this process, as the task of securing and protecting the site would be left in the hands of the military forces that were involved in the deaths and events of El Caracazo, with the resulting lack of independence in safeguarding the available evidence in this case, in addition to affecting the next of kin of the victims who reported their loved ones killed by the military forces; and (d) The representatives have been left out of the process of exhumation and identification of the remains, in conflict with the orders of the Court. 8. That, in this regard, the representatives specifically requested as follows: a) To again ask the Court to continue monitoring compliance with the Judgment until such time as the State has fully complied with all obligations arising therefrom and that, as part of such monitoring task, the victims’ representatives' request be allowed, to the effect that the State will hire the services of Argentina’s Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) to

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