95 256. In Chapter VIII of the present Judgment, the Court established the violation of the right to judicial guarantees and due judicial protection for the failure to investigate, prosecute, and eventually punish those responsible for the facts of the present case. Taking into account the foregoing, as well as its jurisprudence, this Court orders that the State must effectively conduct a criminal investigation of the facts of the present case in order to ascertain them, determine the corresponding criminal responsibility, and the effectively apply the punishment and consequences provided by law.372 This obligation must be satisfied in a reasonable period of time, considering the criteria on investigations indicated in cases of this type,373 inter alia: a) to initiate the corresponding investigations in relation to the facts of the present case, taking into account the systematic violations of human rights that existed in said period, in order to allow for the proceeding and appropriate investigations to be carried out in consideration of the complexity of these facts and the context in which they occurred, thereby avoiding omissions in the gathering of evidence and in the logical lines of investigation; b) to determine the physical and intellectual perpetrators of the enforced disappearances of the victims and of the extrajudicial execution. Furthermore, as this deals with gross violations ohuman rights, and taking into account the nature of the facts and the continued or permanent nature of enforced disappearances, the State many not apply the Amnesty Law to the benefit of the perpetrators, as well as other analogous provisions, the statute of limitations, non-retroactivity of the criminal law, res judicata, ne bis in idem, or any other similar exception that excuses responsibility of this obligation, in the terms of paragraphs 171 to 179 of this Judgment, and c) to ensure that: i) the competent authorities carry out the corresponding investigations ex officio, and that in this manner they have at their disposition and use all the logistical and scientific resources which may be necessary to collect and process the evidence, and in particular, that they have the means to access the relevant documentation and information in order to investigate the allegations and promptly carry out the essential actions and investigations to ascertain what occurred to the deceased person and to the disappeared person of the present case; ii) those who participate in the investigations, among them, the next of kin of the victims, witnesses, an operators of justice, have at their disposition the due guarantees for security, and iii) the authorities abstain from carrying out acts that imply an obstruction to the development of the investigative process. 257. In particular, the State must guarantee that the criminal cases initiated due to the facts of the present case against the alleged perpetrators who were or are military officials, be carried out within the ordinary jurisdiction and not within the military jurisdiction.374 Finally, the Court considers that, based in its 372 Cf. Velásquez Rodríguez. Merits, supra note 25, para. 174; Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 45, para. 211, and Case of Ibsen Cárdenas and Ibsen Peña, supra note 24, para. 237. 373 Cf. Case of the Dos Erres Massacre, supra note 186, para. 233; Case of Manuel Cepeda Vargas, supra note 18, para. 216 and Case of Ibsen Cárdenas and Ibsen Peña, supra note 24 para. 237. 374 Pursuant to its jurisprudence, the Inter-American Court refers to the ordinary or common jurisdication as being the criminal and non-military jurisdiction. Cf. Case of Radilla Pacheco, supra

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