-141and that only José Daniel Álvarez, the son of one of the victims, is a claimant in the
criminal proceedings.
285. Based on the above, it is not possible to assign compensation for costs and
expenses directly to the victims’ next of kin for them to distribute among those that
have provided them with legal assistance, as has been the Court’s practice in some
recent cases.268 Consequently, it considers it equitable to order the State to
reimburse US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars) or the equivalent in
Colombian currency to the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas for the costs and
expenses they incurred in the domestic sphere and in the international proceedings
before the inter-American system for the protection of human rights; US$10,000.00
(ten thousand United States dollars) to ASFADDES for the costs and expenses they
incurred in the domestic and the international spheres and US$8,000.00 (eight
thousand United States dollars) or the equivalent in Colombian currency to CEJIL for
the cost and expenses incurred in the international proceedings.
XIV
METHOD OF COMPLIANCE
286. To comply with this judgment, Colombia must make the payment for
compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage (supra paras. 248, 249, 258
and 259) and reimbursement of costs and expenses (supra para. 285), organize the
act of public apology and acknowledgement of responsibility, and erect an
appropriate and proper monument to recall the facts of the Pueblo Bello massacre
(supra paras. 277 and 278), within one year of its notification. The State must also
publish the pertinent parts of this judgment (supra para. 279), within six months of
its notification.
287. Colombia must also take forthwith the necessary measures to activate and
complete effectively, within a reasonable time, the investigation to identify,
prosecute and punish those responsible for the facts of the massacre (supra paras.
265 to 268). In addition, it must take forthwith the steps required to find and
identify the victims deprived of life or disappeared (supra paras. 270 to 273). Within
a reasonable time, the State must take the necessary measures to guarantee
conditions of security so that the next of kin of the persons allegedly disappeared
and deprived of life, as well as other former inhabitants of Pueblo Bello, who have
been displaced, may return, should they so wish (supra paras. 275 and 276). The
State must also adopt pertinent measures to ensure that the human rights violations
are effectively investigated in proceedings which respect all judicial rights and, every
six months, it must inform the Court of the measures adopted and the results
achieved. Lastly, with regard to the medical care for the next of kin, this must be
provided immediately to those who have already been identified, and as of the time
that the State makes the identification in the case of those who have not yet been
identified, and for the time necessary (supra para. 274).
288. The payment of the compensation established in favor of the persons
disappeared and deprived of life and of their next of kin shall be made directly to the
latter, as established in paragraphs 247, 248 and 258, and in Appendixes I and II of
this judgment.
268
Cf. the “Mapiripán Massacre” case, supra note 7, para. 325; Yatama case. Judgment of June 23,
2005. Series C No. 127, para. 265, and Carpio Nicolle et al. case. Judgment of November 22, 2004. Series
C No. 117, para. 145.
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