ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 28, 2003 BARRIOS ALTOS CASE COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENT HAVING SEEN: 1. The judgment on merits delivered in the Barrios Altos case by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”) of March 14, 2001, in which it decided, unanimously: 1. To admit the State’s recognition of international responsibility. 2. To find, in accordance with the terms of the State’s recognition of international responsibility, that it had violated: a) The right to life embodied in Article 4 of the American Convention on Human Rights, with regard to Placentina Marcela Chumbipuma Aguirre, Luis Alberto Díaz Astovilca, Octavio Benigno Huamanyauri Nolazco, Luis Antonio León Borja, Filomeno León León, Máximo León León, Lucio Quispe Huanaco, Tito Ricardo Ramírez Alberto, Teobaldo Ríos Lira, Manuel Isaías Ríos Pérez, Javier Manuel Ríos Rojas, Alejandro Rosales Alejandro, Nelly María Rubina Arquiñigo, Odar Mender Sifuentes Nuñez and Benedicta Yanque Churo; b) The right to humane treatment embodied in Article 5 of the American Convention on Human Rights, with regard to Natividad Condorcahuana Chicaña, Felipe León León, Tomás Livias Ortega and Alfonso Rodas Alvítez; and c) The right to a fair trial and judicial protection embodied in Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights, with regard to the next of kin of Placentina Marcela Chumbipuma Aguirre, Luis Alberto Díaz Astovilca, Octavio Benigno Huamanyauri Nolazco, Luis Antonio León Borja, Filomeno León León, Máximo León León, Lucio Quispe Huanaco, Tito Ricardo Ramírez Alberto, Teobaldo Ríos Lira, Manuel Isaías Ríos Pérez, Javier Manuel Ríos Rojas, Alejandro Rosales Alejandro, Nelly María Rubina Arquiñigo, Odar Mender Sifuentes Nuñez, Benedicta Yanque Churo, and with regard to Natividad Condorcahuana Chicaña, Felipe León León, Tomás Livias Ortega and Alfonso Rodas Alvítez, as a result of the promulgation and application of Amnesty Laws No. 26479 and No. 26492. 3. To find, in accordance with the terms of the State’s recognition of international responsibility, that the State failed to comply with Articles 1(1) and 2 of the American Convention on Human Rights as a result of the promulgation and application of Amnesty Laws No. 26479 and No. 26492 and the violation of the articles of the Convention mentioned in operative paragraph 2 of [the] judgment. 4. To find that Amnesty Laws No. 26479 and No. 26492 are incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights and, consequently, lack legal effect. 5. To find that the State of Peru should investigate the facts to determine the identity of those responsible for the human rights violations referred to in [the] judgment, and also publish the results of this investigation and punish those responsible. 6. To order that reparations sh[ould] be established by mutual agreement between the defendant State, the Inter-American Commission and the victims, their next of kin or

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