bonds and links of solidarity between the dead and the living, forming the unity of the human kind, with the respect due to ones and the others, for which there ought to prevail the right to truth. 40. The widening of the notion of victim again occurs in the present case, in relation to the close relatives of Mr. Efraín Bámaca Velásquez. The intense suffering caused by the violent death of a beloved person is further aggravated by his forced disappearance, and discloses one of the great truths of the human condition: that the fate of one is ineluctably linked to the fate of the others. One cannot live in peace in face of the disgrace of a beloved person. And peace should not be a privilege of the dead. The forced disappearance of a person victimizes likewise his close relatives (at times disrupting the family nucleus itself38), not only for the intense suffering and the desperation ensuing therefrom, but also from substract all from the protecting shield of Law. This understanding already forms today, on the eve of the XXIst century, jurisprudence constante of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary 38 . As clearly stated in testimonies in public hearings pertaining to various contentious cases before the Inter-American Court in the last years.