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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I INTRODUCTION OF THE CASE AND PURPOSE OF THE DISPUTE ...................................................... 4
II PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT .............................................................................................. 6
III JURISDICTION ............................................................................................................................ 8
IV ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ......................................................... 9
V EVIDENCE .................................................................................................................................... 15
A.
Documentary, testimonial and expert evidence ................................................................ 15
B.
Admission of the evidence ................................................................................................ 16
B.1
Admission of the documentary evidence........................................................................... 16
B.2
Admission of the testimonies and of the expert evidence .................................................... 17
VI FACTS ........................................................................................................................................ 17
A.
Context ............................................................................................................................. 17
B.
Facts related to the forced disappearance of José Adrián Rochac Hernández .................. 19
C.
Facts related to the forced disappearance of Santos Ernesto Salinas ............................... 23
D.
Facts related to the forced disappearance of Emelinda Lorena Hernández ....................... 25
E.
Facts related to the forced disappearances of Manuel Antonio Bonilla and Ricardo Abarca
Ayala ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….28
VII MERITS ..................................................................................................................................... 31
VII-1 VIOLATIONS RELATED TO THE FORCED DISAPPEARANCES: RIGHTS TO PERSONAL LIBERTY,
HUMANE TREATMENT, LIFE, RECOGNITION OF JURIDICAL PERSONALITY, PRIVATE AND FAMILY
LIFE, IDENTITY, PROTECTION OF THE FAMILY AND OF THE CHILD, IN RELATION TO THE
OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND GUARANTEE RIGHTS ...................................................................... 31
A.
The forced disappearance of children as a multiple and continuing violation of human rights
and of the obligation to respect and guarantee rights (Articles 7, 5, 4(1) and 3 in relation to Article
1(1) of the American Convention) ............................................................................................... 32
B.
The rights of children, and of their next of kin, to the protection of the family, to private and
family life, and to identity (Articles 11(2) and 17, in relation to Articles 19 and 1(1) of the American
Convention) ................................................................................................................................ 33
C.
The right to personal integrity of the next of kin ............................................................. 39
VII-2 VIOLATIONS RELATED TO THE INVESTIGATIONS: RIGHTS TO PERSONAL LIBERTY, JUDICIAL
GUARANTEES AND JUDICIAL PROTECTION, IN RELATION TO THE OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND
GUARANTEE RIGHTS ....................................................................................................................... 42
A.
The obligation to initiate an investigation ex officio ......................................................... 45
B.
Lack of due diligence in the criminal investigations .......................................................... 47
C.
Habeas Corpus proceedings .............................................................................................. 51
D.
Conclusions ....................................................................................................................... 54
VIII REPARATIONS (Application of Article 63(1) of the American Convention) .............................. 55