101 military regime; c) the photographic exposition “the Dictatorship in Brazil 19641985,” and d) the project “Memories ‘Essential Persons,’” that consists of panels and sculptures placed in various public places. Furthermore, the projects of the Amnesty Commission, include, among others: a) the “Project Cultural Amnesty,” which encompasses public hearings of the Amnesty Commission where the applications for reparations of the victims of the military regime are analized by means of the “Amnesty Caravans”; b) the “I Encuentro de Torturados de la Guerrilha do Araguaia,” [“First Encounter of Tortured Persons of the Guerrilha do Araguaia”]; c) the project “Memorial de Amnistía Política en Brasil” [“Political Amnesty Memorial in Brazil”]; d) the campaign for donation and collection of information “Caminos para la Democracia” [“Pathways to Democracy”]; e) the creation of a Working Group for the project “Marcas de Memoria: Historia Oral de la Amnistía Política en Brasil” [“Memory Scars: Oral History of the Political Amnesty in Brazil”]; f) the publication of the Magazine Political Amnesty and Transitional Justice, and g) the creation of the Political Amnesty Memorial in Brazil, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Regarding the recovery of the memory of Guerrilha do Araguaia, the State emphasized the Museum “Paraense Emílio Goeldi,” wherein the activities consist, among others, in the spreading of knowledge and heritage related to the amazonic region, and the collection and systematization of information on the Guerrilla. Lastly, the State reported on the tributes made to the victim Bergson Gurjão Farias. 277. The Inter-American Court positively values the initiatives of acknowledgment of domestic responsibility and the numerous measures of reparation reported by the State. Nevertheless, as it has done in other cases,388 for the domestic acknowledgment to reach its full effect, the Court deems that the State must carry out a public act of acknowledgment of its international responsibility, in relation with the facts of the present case, referring to the established violations in the present Judgment. The act should be carried out during a public ceremony, in the presence of high-ranking national authorities and of the victims in the present case. The State should agree on the terms of compliance of the public act of acknowledgment with the victims or their representatives, as well as the particularities required, such as location and date for it to be carried out. Said act should be disseminated via the media, and the State has a period of one year as of the notification of the present Judgment to carry out the act. iii. “Day of the politically disappeared in Brazil” and memorial 278. The representatives requested the Court to order the State to designate a day such as the “day of the politically disappeared,” during which activities are carried out to remember the disappeared persons during the military dictatorship, to help create a culture of conscience regarding the severity of the facts which occurred, and to guarantee their non-repetition. Likewise, they requested the construction of a memorial so the next of kin of the victims can visit it in order to remember the victims and carry out the activities of the day of the politically disappeared in Brazil. Said memorial must include a permanent, simple, and sensitive exposition of the victims and their next of kin, as well as it may include temporary expositions. 279. The State noted that the creation of a commemorative day to remember the politically disappeared persons in Brazil depends on its domestic law, 388 Cf. Case of Kawas Fernández, supra note 188, para. 202; Case of Fernández Ortega et al., supra note 53, para. 244, and Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 45, para. 226.

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