12. Decease of presumed victim Pascual Huentequeo Pichún Paillalao. On March 31, 2013, the FIDH advised the Court, among other matters, that Pascual Huentequeo Pichún Paillalao had died on March 20 that year. 13. Summons to a hearing. On April 30, 2013, the President of the Court issued an Order,15 in which he summoned the Inter-American Commission, the common interveners of the representatives and the State to a public hearing (infra para. 15) to receive the final oral arguments of the common interveners and of the State, and the final oral observations of the Commission, on the merits and eventual reparations and costs. He also summoned two presumed victims, two witnesses and three expert witnesses to testify at the public hearing. In addition, the President defined the specific destination and purpose of the assistance of the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund (supra para. 9). The President also ordered that statements be received by affidavit from five presumed victims, two of whom were summoned ex officio by the Court, and also from twenty-nine witnesses and eleven expert witnesses. 14. On May 21 and 22, 2013, CEJIL forwarded the expert opinion of Ruth Vargas Forman with regard to Víctor Manuel Ancalaf Llaupe, and also the expert opinions of Mauricio Duce Julio, Claudio Fierro Morales and Manuel Cancio Meliá, and the testimony of the witnesses Matías Ancalaf Prado and Karina del Carmen Prado. On May 22 and 24, 2013, the FIDH sent the statements of three presumed victims (Juan Patricio Marileo Saravia, Juan Ciriaco Millacheo Licán and José Benicio Huenchunao Mariñán), and of seventeen witnesses,16 and the expert opinions of Carlos Felimer del Valle Rojas, Fabien Le Bonniec, and Ruth Vargas Forman with regard to the presumed victims Pascual Huentequeo Pichún Paillalao, Florencio Jaime Marileo Saravia, José Benicio Huenchunao Mariñán, Juan Patricio Marileo Saravia and Juan Ciriaco Millacheo Licán. On May 27, 2013, Ylenia Hartog, representative of the presumed victims Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and Patricia Roxana Troncoso Robles,17 submitted their written statements.18 On May 23 and 27, 2013, the Secretariat of the Court received the expert opinions of Ruth Vargas Forman with regard to the presumed victims Mr. Norín Catrimán and Ms. Troncoso Robles. On May 28, 2013, the Commission presented the expert opinions of Jan Perlin and Rodolfo Stavenhagen. 15. Public hearing. The public hearing took place on May 29 and 30, 2013, during the ninety-ninth regular session of the Court held at its seat.19 During the hearing, the Court 15 Cf. Case of Norín Catrimán et al. (Lonkos, leaders and activists of the Mapuche indigenous people) v. Chile. Order of the President of the Court of April 30, 2013, which can be consulted on the Court’s website at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/norincatriman_30_04_2013.pdf. 16 On May 22, 2013: Flora Collonao Millano, Carlos Pichún, Rafael Pichún, Pascual Alejandro Pichún Collonao, Claudia Espinoza Gallardo, Soledad Angélica Millacheo Licán, Lorenza Saravia Tripaillán, Freddy Johnatan Marileo Marileo, Juvelina Ñanco Marileo, Juan Julio Millacheo Ñanco, Gloria Isabel Millacheo Ñanco, Luis Hernán Millacheo Ñanco, Zulema Marta Mariñán Millahual, and Mercedes Huenchunao Mariñán. On May 24, 2013: Sandra Jelves Mella, Pablo Ortega Manosalva and Luis Rodríguez-Piñero Royo. 17 Ylenia Hartog is the representative of the presumed victims Segundo Ancieto Norín Catrimán and Patricia Roxana Troncoso Robles, but her participation in these proceedings as a common intervener was not accepted (supra para. 6 and footnotes 10 and 12). In view of the fact that the President ordered, ex officio, that the statements of these two presumed victims be presented, Ms. Hartog submitted this evidence. 18 On May 29, 2013, representative Ylenia Hartog presented a brief and its annexes in which she requested certain measures of reparation for the presumed victims, Segundo Ancieto Norín Catrimán and Patricia Roxana Troncoso Robles, and also requested the admission of several documents and a CD. 19 There appeared at this hearing: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: Commissioner Rose Marie B. Antoine, Delegate, Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Deputy Executive Secretary, and Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Secretariat legal adviser; (b) for the common interveners of the representatives of the presumed victims; for CEJIL: Liliana Tojo, Juliana Bravo Valencia, Gisela de León and Sergio Fuenzalida Bascuñan; for the FIDH: Myriam del Pilar Reyes, Jimena Reyes and Jaime Madariaga de la Barra, and (c) for the State: Miguel Ángel González, Ambassador of the Republic of Chile to Costa Rica, Agent, Juan Francisco Galli, lawyer, Co-agent, Milenko Bertrand-Galindo Arriagada, lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, Jorge Castro, Bernardita Vega, Paula Badilla, Camila Palacios, Felipe Rayo, María Jaraquemada and Alejandro Rojas. 9