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place and date.299 In addition, the State must cover the transportation costs of the next of
kin and disseminate the act through the media.300 The State must do this within one year of
notification of this judgment.
c)
Designation of schools with the names of the victims
207. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to name a school in each
place where the forced disappearances occurred after the victims in this case, to be agreed
on with the victims and their next of kin; with a plaque on which the victims’ names appear
together with an acknowledgment that they were forcibly disappeared by State agents. The
representatives requested that this plaque be unveiled in the presence of the victims’ next of
kin. The State agreed to name a school after the victims in each place where the
disappearances occurred or in any other place with symbolic relevance acceptable to the
victims and their representatives.
208. The Court assesses positively the State’s willingness to comply with the reparations
requested by the representatives concerning this aspect of the judgment. In the instant
case, the State has acknowledged the existence of a systematic pattern of forced
disappearance of children that was perpetrated in the context of the Salvadoran internal
armed conflict, within the framework of which the forced disappearances of José Rubén
Rivera Rivera, Ana Julia and Carmelina Mejía Ramírez, and Gregoria Herminia, Serapio
Cristian and Julia Inés Contreras took place. In this regard, given the circumstances of the
case, the Court finds it important to name three schools, one for each family group: one
with the name of Gregoria Herminia, Serapio Cristian and Julia Inés Contreras, another with
the name of Ana Julia and Carmelina Mejía Ramírez, and a third with the name of José
Rubén Rivera Rivera, in each place where the forced disappearance took place or in another
nearby place with symbolic relevance, following the agreement of the victims and their
representatives. A plaque must be placed within these schools with the names of the then
children and an acknowledgment that they were forcibly disappeared by members of the
Salvadoran Armed Forces. The plaques must be unveiled in the presence of the respective
victims. The content of the plaques must be agreed upon previously with the victims and
their representatives. The State has two years from notification of this judgment to
implement these measures.
d)
Preparation, distribution and transmission of an audiovisual documentary
209. The representatives considered it crucial that the State transmit a video in the media
with the most extensive national coverage, and on the Internet, informing society about the
modus operandi of the Armed Forces in the forced disappearance of children during the
conflict, to include a segment in which the State’s willingness to guarantee the nonrepetition of the facts is reiterated, whose content must receive the prior consent of the
victims and their representatives, and which must be transmitted monthly on three separate
occasions, on the channel and at prime time. The documentary must also be placed on the
web page of the search for disappeared children. The State agreed to produce a video on the
forced disappearances of children during the armed conflict, the substance of which would
include the contents of the judgments that the Court has handed down in relation to the
299
Cf. Case of Kawas Fernández v. Honduras. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of April 3, 2009 Series
C No. 196, para. 202; Case of Gelman, supra note 16, para. 266, and Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do
Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 277.
300
Cf. Case of Myrna Mack Chang, supra note 269, para. 278; Case of Cantoral Huamaní and García Santa
Cruz v. Peru. Preliminary objection, merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of July 10, 2007. Series C No. 167,
para. 193, and Case of the Miguel Castro Castro Prison, supra note 137, para. 445.
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