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1.
Provide adequate reparations for the human rights violations stated in [the merits] report
in both material and moral terms, including implementation of an adequate program of psycho-social
treatment for the survivors.
2.
Conduct an investigation in the ordinary jurisdiction regarding the events related to the
human rights violations reported in the merits report and conduct those investigations impartially and
effectively, and within a reasonable period of time, in order to fully clarify the facts, identify the intellectual
authors and perpetrators, and impose the appropriate penalties.
3.
Take the respective administrative, disciplinary, or criminal measures against the actions
or omissions of State agents who contributed to denying justice and fostering impunity with respect to the
facts of this case.
4.
Establish a mechanism to facilitate the comprehensive identification of the wounded
victims as well as of the relatives of the executed victims.
5.
Take the measures necessary to ensure that Article 3 of the Code of Justice of the
Armed Forces is compatible with the American Convention and inter-American jurisprudence.
6.
Adopt the measures necessary to prevent similar occurrences in future, consistent with
the duty to prevent human rights violations and guarantee those rights as recognized in the American
Convention. Implement, in particular, permanent human rights programs in the Armed Forces and
National Police training schools, especially on the excessive use of force and on the principle of nondiscrimination.
On the other hand, regarding the identification of the relatives who should be considered victims
in the instant case, the Commission informs the Inter-American Court that, when report 174/10 was
approved, it delimited the scope of victims, leaving open in the recommendations the State’s obligation to
locate the remaining victims of the facts. After the approval of the report on the merits, the petitioners
submitted to the Commission a list of persons they consider to belong to the group of survivors and
relatives of the executed victims.
Finally, the Commission requests the Honorable Court to transfer the appropriate parts of the
expert witness report provided by anthropologist Samuel Martínez in the Yean and Bosico v. Dominican
Republic Case to the present case, and additionally, the Commission offers the following expert
declarations in relation to issues of the inter-American public interest in the instant case:
Expert to be defined, who will testify on the intervention of Dominican military justice in the
investigation and adjudication of crimes that are not part of its function and/that could constitute
human rights violations; as well as the constitutional and legal regulation of the scope of military
justice in the Dominican Republic.
Expert to be defined, who will tesitfy on the treatment that Haitian migrants receive in Dominican
territory, and regarding the minimum guarantees that in accordance with international human
rights standards should govern any criminal or other proceeding involving the determination of a
person’s migrant status or that could result in punishment as a result of said status.
Expert to be defined, who will testify on structural discrimination in the Dominican Republic
against Haitians or those of Haitian origin, the excessive use of force by agents of the State
against Haitians or those of Haitian origin, as well as the absence of effective responses by the
judicial branch in addressing these problems.
The curricula vitae of the experts proposed by the Inter-American Commission are attached.
Finally, the petitioners expressed the victims’ interest in the submission of the present case to the
Inter-American Court and informed that the following shall be representatives of the victims: the Grupo de