114 c) to adopt the measures required to guarantee Jennifer Harbury and the other next of kin of Bámaca Velásquez their right to participate in all legal procedures carried out to locate the mortal remains of the victim and to determine the responsibility for violations committed, through timely and effective notice of such procedures; d) to allow Jennifer Harbury to publicly present the facts, as a form of reparation of the detriment caused by the campaign conducted by State authorities against her honor and reputation; in this regard, they requested that three pages be included in the national daily with the highest circulation in Guatemala, and that a video tape be edited on the facts that affected Mrs. Harbury’s image; e) taking the legislative and any other measures necessary to adapt the Guatemalan legal system to human rights norms and humanitarian law and, specifically, to adapt to those standards the procedures applied by the military forces in connection with treatment of captured combatants, to ensure their right to life, liberty, humane treatment, judicial protection and a fair trial; and f) to declare the loss of possibilities of “self-realization” and “life options” of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, as a consequence of the violations committed against him by State agents, which must be considered by the Court, from “an integral and not only patrimonial perspective”, when it sets the amount of compensatory indemnification. The Commission added that there must be a “flexible interpretation of lost earnings, […] not merely through mechanical application of the growth that would have occurred in the same job, but rather expanding the concept of lost earnings, to refer to what would have been probable in equity”. Furthermore, they requested that the age and expectations shared by his spouse be taken into account, for which reason they estimated US$25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand United States dollars) as a “minimum threshold” to set compensation in equity for detriment to his life plan. Arguments of the State 71. Guatemala expressed its commitment to “promote and advance the investigations to clarify the facts analyzed by the Court”. The State also pointed out that the signing of the “Agreement for a Firm and Lasting Peace” is an important element for events such as those of the instant case not to occur again, and that the fact that the historical truth-finding committee or Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico has taken cognizance of them represents “a principle of reparation by means of which Guatemalan society can know the historical truth”. Finally, the State referred to the development of various political actions by the State tending to provide “redress and reparation” to the victims of the various violations that occurred in Guatemala, and among them the State mentioned the draft bill of the Peace Committee or Comisión de Paz y Concordia, the establishment of the National Program to Search for Missing Persons, and the National Program for Exhumations. These are set in the framework of the activities of the Presidential Coordinating Committee for the Policy of the Executive regarding Human Rights. The State recognized, however, that such initiatives do not guarantee that the whereabouts of

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