C.1.2. Public act to acknowledge responsibility
446. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to acknowledge its responsibility for
the events denounced in the case and to organize a public act to make reparation to the
victims. The representatives asked that the State be ordered to hold a “public event in Cacarica
and in Bogota to acknowledge the Colombian State’s responsibility” in relation to the events
that took place in the municipality of Riosucio, in the Cacarica river basin. The State did not
present specific arguments in relation to these requests by the Commission and of the
representatives.
447. The Court establishes that the State must hold a public act to acknowledge its
international responsibility for the violations declared in this Judgment. The determination of the
place and characteristics of the act must be previously consulted and agreed with the members
of the community. The acknowledgement should take place during a public ceremony in the
presence of senior State authorities and members of the community and must be widely
publicized in the media. The State has one year as of notification of this Judgment to organize
this ceremony.697
C.1.3. Other measures of satisfaction
448. The representatives asked the Court, as measures designed to support the AfroColombian culture and its traditions: (a) the publication of a book,698 the making of a film,699
and a radio series;700 (b) the elaboration and implementation of a plan to strengthen its cultural
identity, executed based on the national policies of the Ministry of Culture in conjunction with
the Ministry of Communications, which should include the creation of cultural centers in each
settlement,701 and (c) other related measures.702 In addition, they requested measures relating
to the construction and maintenance of museums and monuments: (d) the construction of the
Museum of Afro-Colombian Heritage in Bogota with a replica in Cacarica;703 (e) the financing of
the project for a monument “in memory of Marino López” and “for the forced displacement in
five points,”704 and (f) the conservation and recognition of existing monuments.705 Lastly, they
697
Cf. Case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador, para. 305.
698
The representatives added that the Court should order the State to “place on record the memory of their
displacement, its causes, and the history that identifies them as a people and a community.”
699
The representatives asked that, the film should conserve “the memory of what their culture represents, of what
they are today, of what they were, and of what they want to be.”
700
The representatives requested a radio series “of their memory that is broadcast by national media and
community radio.”
701
The representatives considered that the cultural centers should have: autochthonous musical instruments, a
library with a specialized bibliography on the Afro-Colombian identity, a theater, audiovisual equipment, and a space for
children with appropriate toys, beds, books and computers.
702
The representatives also requested the construction of an amphitheater in each humanitarian zone to promote
artistic activities; meeting rooms; implementation of community television or cinema, and the corresponding training for
members of the communities; and the provisions of a community AM and FM radio, and award of an operating license,
and training for the youth of the community.
703
The representatives asked that this museum should include: (a) the history of the Afro-Colombian people (b) a
space for remembrance; (c) a hommage to the Afro-descendant victims, and (d) a shop that sold only products
elaborated by the Afro-descendant community.
704
With the expression “five points,” the representatives referred to the five-point document of demands
presented to the Government for their return in conditions of dignity, safety, justice and moral reparation on April 20,
1998.
705
The representatives requested the “recognition as a national museum, the maintenance and conservation of
the monument located in Nueva Vida” and “recognition, conservation and dissemination of information on the
monument located in the Turbo sports arena and in Bahía Cupica.” Motions and arguments brief, para. 928 (evidence
file, folio 205).
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