70 order the State to adopt measures to strengthen the authorities responsible for directing judicial processes on grave human rights violations, and to guarantee access to the military files of the time of the conflict. The State reported on the human rights and international humanitarian law training provided to the personnel of the Guatemalan armed forces, through the army’s different training and education centers. 251. The violations attributable to the State in the instant case were perpetrated by state employees. Additionally, the violations have been aggravated by the existence of a generalized context of impunity regarding grave human rights violations brought about by justice agents. Consequently, notwithstanding the existence of programs in Guatemala for training employees on human rights, the Court deems it necessary for the State to organize and initiate, independently or to strengthen those already existent, a permanent education program in human rights for the members of the armed forces, as well as judges and prosecutors. Special mention must be given within these programs to this Judgment and to other cases adjudicated by the Court against Guatemala, as well as to international instruments on human rights and international humanitarian law,261 specifically that related to human rights violations and the components of the victims’ access to justice. This program must be organized and executed within a term of six months from the date of notification of this Judgment. 252. In this regard, the Court deems it pertinent to call to mind that the effectiveness and impact of the implementation of education programs in human rights at the heart of the security forces is crucial to generate guarantees of nonrepetition of facts such as those of the instant case. These programs must reflect results of actions and prevention that confirm their efficiency, and their evaluation must be performed with the adequate indicators262. 253. In relation to the above, the Court deems it necessary for the State to organize and initiate, independently or to strengthen those already existent, a specific program of training and strengthening for an integrated improvement of the Justice System in Guatemala, for the authorities in charge of directing the judicial processes on grave human rights violations, which must include a strategy to investigate patterns of massive and systematic human rights violations and effective judicial protection, so as to direct and lead this type of processes within reasonable terms and considering the investigation of all of the facts and those responsible, in order to guarantee access to justice to the victims of this type of violations, within a term of six months from the date of notification of this Judgment. 254. Finally, once the rules on the appeal for legal protection are approved, the State must organize and initiate within six months of the publication of the corresponding law, a training program for justice agents on the adequate use of this remedy and on effective judicial protection. C) Measures of Satisfaction, Rehabilitation, and guarantees of nonrepetition 255. The Court will determine other measures that seek to redress non-pecuniary damage and that are not of pecuniary nature, and will establish measures of a public 261 Cf. Case of the Mapiripán Massacre v. Colombia, supra note 19, para. 317; Case of the Ituango Massacres v. Colombia, supra note 17, para. 409, and Case of the Rochela Massacre v. Colombia, supra note 34, para. 303. 262 Cf. Case of Goiburú et al v. Paraguay. Order of the Court of November 19, 2009, para. 49.

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