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a) whether the payments for compensation for material and moral damages, as
well as the legal costs and fees, have been paid, and the documents that proves
those payments;
b) the reach and scope of the mandate of the National Commission on Land
Rights, as well as the Presidential Order that established it;
c) whether some community members eventually decided to return to Moiwana
Village, and if so, what are the guarantees of safety that the State will offer;
and
d) whether the agreement with the artist who will construct the memorial has
been signed and whether other positive steps have been taken in order to
enable the process.
10.
The communication dated May 21, 2007, and its attachments received on May
30, 2007, by which the State submitted its second report on the measures taken
towards compliance with the Moiwana Judgement and declared that:
a) regarding the official ceremony held on July 15, 2006, the State was sending
with this report two DVD’s showing the public apology by the State;
b) the State has completed:
i. the payment for costs to Association Moiwana, transferred on January
15, 2007; and
ii. the payment for costs to the Forest Peoples Programme, transferred on
December 15, 2006.
c) regarding payments of compensation for material and moral damages to the
130 victims living in Suriname and French Guiana, the State included a letter
from the Ministry of Finance to the Governor of the Central Bank of Suriname,
dated August 10, 2006, requesting the transfer of US$ 13,000 per person to
fifteen persons for a total payment of US$ 195,000, as well as a letter from said
Bank to the Minister of Finance, dated August 24, 2006, confirming that fifteen
payments of between SRD 35,230.00 and SRD 951,210.00 have been made
between July 11, 2006 and August 15, 2006, to a total of sixty-one persons, for
a total of SRD 2,149,030.00.
d) the Moiwana monument is near completion. Due to heavy rains, the technical
deliverance has been delayed past the contracted date. The State included with
its report:
i. Missive No. 261 from the Vice-President and Chairman of the Council of
Ministers, dated July 11, 2006, agreeing to the commission of the
monument to artist Marcel Pinas for US$ 159,478.27 to be charged to
the budget of the Ministry of Justice and Police for the fiscal year 2006;
ii. the commission of artist agreement between the artist and the State,
signed November 3, 2006, which establishes a contract for $159,478.27
to complete the monument within 60 working days;
iii. a computer disc with photographs representing the beginning of
construction of the monument; and
iv. DVD reproductions of the public ceremony [see (a) above], which
include video images of a model of the monument.
e) regarding the National Commission on Land Rights, the State attaches to its
second report:
i. Presidential Order No. PB 02/2006, dated February 1st 2006, which
establishes the National Commission on Land Rights for the duration of
one year counting from January 4, 2006; appoints nine members to the
Commission; establishes the remuneration to be made to Commission
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