64 reparation,280 in order to establish measures to repair the harm caused to the victims. A. Injured Party 181. The Court reiterates that, according to the provisions of Article 63(1) of the Convention, those who have been declared a victim of the violation of any right embodied in the Convention are considered injured parties. Therefore, this Court considers that the following are “injured parties”: Gregoria Herminia Contreras, Serapio Cristian Contreras, Julia Inés Contreras, Ana Julia Mejía Ramírez, Carmelina Mejía Ramírez, José Rubén Rivera Rivera, María Maura Contreras, Fermín Recinos, Julia Gregoria Recinos Contreras, Marta Daysi Leiva, Nelson Contreras, Rubén de Jesús López Contreras, Sara Margarita López Contreras, Santos Antonio López Contreras, Arcadia Ramírez Portillo, Avenicio Portillo, María Nely Portillo, Santos Verónica Portillo, Reina Dionila Portillo de Silva, Margarita de Dolores Rivera de Rivera, Agustín Antonio Rivera Gálvez, Juan Carlos Rivera, Agustín Antonio Rivera, José Daniel Rivera Rivera, Milton Rivera Rivera, Irma Cecilia Rivera Rivera and Cándida Marisol Rivera Rivera. The foregoing, as victims of the violations declared in Chapters VII and VIII will be the beneficiaries of the reparations ordered below by the Court. B. Obligation to investigate the facts that resulted in the violations and to identify, prosecute and, as appropriate, punish those responsible, as well as to determine the whereabouts of the victims 1. Investigation, identification, trial, and, as appropriate, punishment of all the perpetrators and masterminds 182. Both the Commission and the representatives asked the Court to order the State to carry out an impartial, diligent and effective investigation into the circumstances surrounding the forced disappearances in this case in order to identify all the perpetrators, participants, and masterminds, bring them to trial, and impose the corresponding punishments. Additionally, the Commission requested that the State be required to carry out the criminal, administrative and any other kind of investigations to establish the legal consequences for the acts or omissions of State officials that contributed to the concealment, the denial of justice, and the current impunity of the facts of the case, and the representatives requested that those responsible for the obstruction of justice be investigated. They also requested an investigation into those responsible for the illtreatment and rape suffered by Gregoria Herminia Contreras, as well as the facts related to the alteration of her identity. In addition, the representatives asked that the State be ordered to create a special investigation unit to clarify the forced disappearances of children that occurred during the armed conflict “in order to establish a specialized agency to facilitate the comprehensive investigation of the facts.” The State acknowledged its obligation to investigate the facts denounced, to prosecute those responsible for the facts through a fair trial, and to punish them once they had been identified and their criminal or administrative responsibility determined. The State indicated its willingness to implement a strategy allowing access, through cooperation, to the necessary technical capabilities in forensic, anthropological, genetic and criminalistic investigation to investigate cases of children disappeared during the internal armed conflict. 183. In Chapter VIII of this judgment, the Court declared the violation of the rights to judicial guarantees and judicial protection because the domestic proceedings, taken as a whole, have not constituted effective remedies to determine the fate or to discover the 280 Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez, supra note 278, paras. 25 to 27; Case of Mejía Idrovo, supra note 19, para. 127, and Case of Chocrón Chocrón, supra note 19, para. 144.