73 memory and as a guarantee of non-repetition. This monument must be built within one year from the date of notification of this Judgment. C.2) Rehabilitation Medical and psychological attention of the victims 266. The Commission requested the Court to order the State to adopt measures for psychological and medical rehabilitation for the victims, and to implement an adequate psychosocial attention program for them. The representatives requested additional claims regarding this reparation, and referred to the alleged lack of compliance of the State’s compromise established in the friendly settlement agreement, to provide specialized medical and psychosocial attention, and requested the Court to order the State to provide that attention to all victims of this case. 267. The State indicated that in compliance with the commitment derived from the friendly settlement agreement, it had “taken steps for the medical and psychological treatment of the [next of kin of the] victims of the [L]as Dos Erres Massacre, which [was] provided by the Department of Public Health and Social Assistance, through the Mental Health Area, South West Health Area of Petén,” which continues to be implemented and will be consolidated through the signature of an agreement between the Department of Health and the Presidential Coordinating Commission on Human Rights Policy of the Executive Branch, (hereinafter “COPREDEH”). 268. The Court takes cognizance that in the friendly settlement procedure the State committed to provide specialized and integrated medical attention to the surviving victims and next of kin of those deceased in the massacre who require it, and that the State has expressed its good will by performing some of the commitments established therein, therefore it values those steps. 269. Without detriment to the above, the Court deems, as it has in other cases,269 that it is necessary to order a reparation measure that provides adequate attention to the psychological issues and moral damages suffered by the victims, as has already been established in conformity with the violation of Article 5(1) of the Convention, as well as other infringements of this character derived from the violation of Articles 17, 18, and 19 thereof. 270. Therefore, in order to contribute to the reparation of these damages, the Court orders the obligation of the State to provide, for free and immediately, the medical and psychological treatment required by the 155 victims, with prior informed consent, and for the time necessary, including providing medications. The psychological and psychiatric treatment must be provided by personnel and institutions specialized in providing attention to the victims of facts of violence such as those that occurred in the instant case.270 In the event that the State lacks them, it must recur to specialized private or civil society institutions. In providing this treatment, the circumstances and particular needs of each victim must also be taken into consideration, so as to provide them with collective, family, or individual treatment, according to what they agree with each of the victims, and then an 269 Cf. Case of Barrios Altos v. Peru. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of November 30, 2001. Series C No. 87, para. 45; Case of Kawas Fernández v. Honduras, supra note 21, para. 209, and Case of Anzualdo Castro v. Peru, supra note 28, para. 203. 270 Cf. Case of Barrios Altos v. Peru. Reparations and Costs, supra note 269, para. 42 to 45; Case of Kawas Fernández v. Honduras, supra note 21, para. 209, and Case of Anzualdo Castro v. Peru, supra note 28, para. 203.

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