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Electoral Council, without any restrictions concerning the matter appealed
against;
(c)
To adopt the legislative, administrative and any other type of measure
necessary to guarantee the participation of the indigenous people of the Atlantic
Coast of Nicaragua in the electoral processes, according to their customary law,
values, practices and customs; and
(d)
To adopt the necessary measures to avoid a recurrence of similar facts
in the future.
250.
Arguments of the representatives of the victims
They requested the Court to order the State:
(a)
To acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the violations committed;
this should be done orally, translated into Miskito, Sumo, Rama and English and
published and distributed among the indigenous communities of the Atlantic
Coast;
(b)
To buy time on a radio station to acknowledge publicly the human rights
violations committed, to make an undertaking to avoid their repetition and to
read “the facts and the concluding part of the judgment delivered by the Court,”
an also “to establish a fund so that the communities can disseminate the
content of this communication in the different languages […] by radio”;
(c)
To publish the judgment of the Court in the two newspapers with the
most widespread circulation in the country, and in Nicaragua’s official gazette;
(d)
To modify the requirements for participating in the elections so as to
ensure that the indigenous communities can accede to public office through
their representatives, selected according to their customary law, practices,
values and customs;
(e)
To modify its domestic laws so that organizations can present candidates
in the regions in which they are established;
(f)
To adopt legislative measures that “ensure the representation of the
indigenous communities in the different power structures,” in consultation with
these communities and respecting their forms of organization. The State should
establish electoral districts that take into account the indigenous territories and
establish an “ethnic quota” in favor of the indigenous people in the Legislative
Assembly;
(g)
To adopt affirmative measures in order to promote and guarantee the
political participation of the indigenous people, after consulting with them;
(h)
To enact measures that allow the resolutions of the Supreme Electoral
Council to be appealed before a judicial body, whether or not they concern
electoral matters; and
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