10 in the determination of the forms and extent of the reparations (in the present Judgment in this respect). The passing of time brings ineluctably closer the living to their dead, and awakens human conscience to the links of solidarity which bind them together. The living and the dead are definitively much more closely linked than one can prima facie assume, and this reality cannot keep on being ignored by the International Law of Human Rights in evolution. These are, in my view, the main lessons that can be extracted from the present case Bámaca Velásquez. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary