77 causal nexus with the facts of the case.”307 In this case, the representatives have only requested that the Court establish an amount for indirect damage resulting from medical and other expenses related to the search, in favor of the victims’ next of kin. 224. In the section on costs and expenses, the Court will examine the financial expenses of the Search Association resulting from the search and family reunion of the victims in this case (infra para. 234), because the amounts expended are also related to the expenses to advance the domestic investigations. 225. The Court considers that, owing to the searches carried out directly by the next of kin of the victims under adverse conditions, as well as the expenses incurred by the next of kin for medical attention and medicines as a result of the effects on them of the forced disappearances verified in this case (supra paras. 120 to 123), it is reasonable to establish, in equity, the following amounts for indirect damage: Name Relationship Amount Mejía Ramírez Family Arcadia Ramírez Portillo Avenicio Portillo María Nely Portillo Santos Verónica Portillo Reina Dionila Portillo de Silva Mother Brother Sister Sister Aunt US$ US$ US$ US$ 5.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 US$ 5.000,00 Contreras Recinos Family María Maura Contreras Fermín Recinos Ayala Julia Gregoria Recinos Contreras Marta Daysi Leiva Contreras Nelson Geovany Contreras Rubén de Jesús López Contreras Sara Margarita López Contreras Santos Antonio López Contreras Mother Father Sister Sister Brother, deceased Brother Brother Brother US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ 5.000,00 5.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 Rivera Rivera Family Margarita Dolores Rivera de Rivera Agustín Antonio Rivera Gálvez Juan Carlos Rivera Agustín Antonio Rivera Rivera José Daniel Rivera Rivera Milton Rivera Rivera Irma Cecilia Rivera Rivera Cándida Marisol Rivera Rivera 2. Mother Father Brother, deceased Brother Brother Brother Sister Sister US$ 5.000,00 US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ 5.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 1.000,00 Non-pecuniary damages 226. The Commission requested that the Court establish, in equity, the amount of compensation corresponding to non-pecuniary damage resulting from the alleged violations. The representatives asked the Court, in equity, to order the Salvadoran State to repair the non-pecuniary damage caused to the victims and their next of kin owing to the profound suffering they have experienced as a result of the factors they described at length with regard to each family, as well as because of the lack of action by the judicial system to find the victims, identify those responsible for the facts, and punish them, as appropriate. The State asked the Court to set an amount for the reparation of non-pecuniary damage in 307 Case of Bámaca Velásquez v. Guatemala. Reparations and costs. Judgment of February 22, 2002. Series C No. 91, para. 43; Case of Mejía Idrovo, supra note 19, para. 150, and Case of Chocrón Chocrón, supra note 19, footnote 206.