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In paragraph 150 of the Judgment, under the title “Costs and Expenses” of Chapter VIII on
“Reparations,” the Tribunal ordered:
150. […] in equity, the payment of US$ 20,000.00 (twenty thousand dollars of the United Status of
America) to the Association of Discharged and Retired Employees, as costs and expenses incurred
during the processing of the instant case before the domestic level and the organs of the InterAmerican system. The amount shall be delivered directly to the Association within the term of one
year as of notice of this Judgment. The victims shall deliver, in turn, the amount they deem
appropriate to the persons who acted as their representatives at the domestic level and in the
processing of the case before the Inter-American system. […]
19.
Subsequently, under the title “Method of Compliance with the payments ordered,” the
Tribunal specified that:
151. The payment of compensation and reimbursement of costs and expenses shall be made
directly to the victims. Should any of these persons die before the pertinent above compensatory
amounts are paid thereto, such amounts shall inure to the benefit of their heirs, pursuant to the
provisions of the applicable domestic legislation.
20.
This Tribunal considers that paragraph 150 of the Judgment states who should
receive the amount to be reimbursed for costs and expenses, as it indicates that the
corresponding amount is to “be delivered directly to the Association.” Though paragraph 151
refers to “the victims” as beneficiaries of the indemnifications and of the reimbursement of
costs and expenses, the Tribunal recalls that in paragraph 113 of the Judgment, it
established that the victims were the “273 members of the Association.”
21.
Thus, a reading of the Judgment as a whole demonstrates that the Association of
Discharged and Retired Employees, wholly made up of the two hundred and seventy-three
victims in the present case, is the direct beneficiary of the reimbursement of costs and
expenses.
22.
Any other allegation related to the obligations that derive from the Judgment may be
submitted to the Tribunal in the proceeding for monitoring of compliance.
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23.
Therefore,
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
in accordance with Article 67 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 62 of
the Rules of Procedure,
DECIDES:
unanimously,