61 and was raped. The rapes carried out in October 1982 and June 1985 resulted in two pregnancies from which her children Edgar and Sandra Maribel García were born (supra para. 116). After March 9, 1987, Juana García was forcibly displaced with her daughter and son aged 3 years and 1 year, approximately, which lasted until the present time. In this regard, during the public hearing, Juana García told this Court: “we were left without clothes, without anything, without a home, like a bird flying […]. We were left without husbands, without spouses […]. I lost my children, not only the two who died [,] [but also] the older ones, the [family] disintegrated, they left […], I lost my sons for nine years […]. I saw the death of my children and of all the neighbors. I suffered a lot, we all suffered greatly […]. We ended up wandering from place to place […].To this day, we are still a disintegrated family.” However, despite these circumstances, Juana García began the search for her loved ones who ended up in clandestine cemeteries and those who were victims of forced disappearance. She denounced the events that had occurred to her next of kin, was involved in the criminal investigations that followed from those denunciations, and participated in the exhumation and identification procedures of her relatives in 2000, 2002 and 2006. She also told this Court that she is still searching for her father, Adrián García Manuel, and for her granddaughter, the daughter of Eusebia Grave García, who was taken away by the military when she was seven months old and who is now reported to be in Sweden. 208 201. Fourth, the REMHI Report noted that “women of all ages and ethnicities, from diverse social backgrounds and different geographical locations, […] had to dedicate themselves to searching for the disappeared and preserving the lives of those who remained, in order to guarantee their personal and family survival. And all this was added to the great emotional toll caused by the impact of violence and its effects on women, such as loneliness, overload and low selfesteem.” 209 202. Finally, the Court understands that the forced displacement included a large number of children, who in addition to the impact of surviving the acts of violence, found that their father and mother - or one of them - had died, and were forced to live in a culture that was not theirs, which caused them to lose their identity and cultural roots, and in some cases they were forced to take charge of their younger brothers and sisters. The Court emphasizes the differentiated impact that acts of violence and displacement had on those who were children at that time, and which placed them in a situation of special vulnerability. Likewise, the Court is aware of the circumstances of the early years of life of children born from the rape of their mothers in the context of the internal armed conflict, and who were themselves victims of the violence of the time, and who have been especially vulnerable due to the possibility of facing stigmatization, discrimination, abandonment, infanticide or other forms of violence. 210 B.4. Conclusion 203. Consequently, the Court considers that the State of Guatemala is responsible for the violation of the rights recognized in Article 22(1) of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof. In this judgment, the Court described the problems encountered in the identification of all the alleged victims in this case, which, in turn, makes it difficult to determine how many persons were displaced. On June 2, 2016, the representatives presented a list of “Individualized and displaced persons,” indicating the names of those who would have remained in a situation of displacement after March 9, 1987, without the State challenging their status as displaced victims (supra paras. 10, 65 and 69). In application of the principle of good faith and procedural loyalty of the parties in this case, the Court considers that these persons, who are Cf. Statement of Juana García Depaz at the public hearing held on April 28, 2016. Cf. REMHI Report “Guatemala: Nunca Más”, Tome I, Chapter 5, Title 5. The resistance of the women. 210 With regard to sexual violence in armed conflict, the International Committee of the Red Cross has noted that “[b]oth children born as a result of rape and their mothers are also extremely vulnerable and may face an increased risk of exclusion from the community. These children may even be victims of infanticide or other forms of violence”. Available at: https://www.icrc.org/spa/resources/documents/faq/sexual-violence-questions-and-answers.htm. See, also: REMHI Report “Guatemala: Nunca Más”, Volume I, Chapter 2, Titles: 1. Violence against children and 4. Children of violence. 208 209

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