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State and considered that the monument should be erected at “Plaza de las Armas”. This
request is being considered by the Municipality of Asunción.
43.
That the representatives expressed during the hearing that, up to date, the State
has not erected any monument and “pressured by the hearing convened, the conversations
began". In that respect, they indicated that the victims accept the proposal to erect the
monument at the Plaza de Armas.
44.
That the Commission expressed, during the hearing, that it is important to come to
an agreement”. However, the Commission noted that, given that it is not problematic
reparation, the State should undertake to comply with it "as soon as possible".
45.
That the Court recalls that the Judgment stipulated the term of one year, as of notice
thereof, for the execution of this measure of reparation. After more than three years, there
is no evidence that appropriate and sufficient measures have been adopted to erect the
monument, which must include the names of the victims and refer to the context of the
forced disappearances that occurred during “Operation Condor”. Even though the Court
values the will expressed by the State regarding this aspect, as to its commitment to define
the physical place, in agreement with the victims, and to erect the monument by June
2010, it is vital for the State to make progress to comply with this measure of reparation
and to adopt all the measures and actions necessary to fulfill it, given the real symbolic
value of the measure as a guarantee of non-repetition of such serious facts in the future.
Therefore, the Court shall continue monitoring compliance with this measure, and to that
end, the State shall inform on the progress and the results obtained in relation to this
measure.
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Human rights training programs
46.
That as to the State’s obligation to implement permanent programs of human rights
training in the Paraguayan police forces, at all levels (operative paragraph eleven of the
Judgment), the State communicated that it had implemented human rights training
programs at all levels, inasmuch as it had introduced courses addressed to officers, noncommissioned officers and deputy superintendents. The State furnished the respective
syllabus of each course to support the information. Likewise, Paraguay informed that the
Ministry of Interior and the National Police entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the
International Committee of the Red Cross, whose general purpose is to: “Update, develop
and promote the inclusion of the international norms of Human Rights and the Humanitarian
Principles in the practical activities of the National Police”. As a result of said Agreement,
two courses were organized that were called "Formation of Human Rights Instructor" and
"III Formation on Human Rights International Norms and Humanitarian Principles Applied to
the Police Role" and according to what the State informed, it was set up the "Office of
Permanent Human Rights Training and Humanitarian Principles Applied to the Police Role”.
In light of the fact that the State acknowledged that the content of the Judgment has not
been included in the previously mentioned programs, according to the terms of paragraph
178 of the Judgment, it mentioned that “in the next days, it shall enter into an Agreement