indicated that “[i]t is not easy to predict all the kinds of aftereffects; the most usual range from suicidal notions, panic, depression, anger, helplessness, and psychosomatic disorders.”393 Equally, the facts have affected their family relationships, as well as having caused a rupture of their family dynamics, which has impaired the family’s harmonious relations,394 and meant that some of them have had to assume new roles within the family.395 310. Moreover, some members of the family have been affected by the failure to investigate what happened, as well as by the permanent desire to obtain justice.396 In that regard, expert witness Valdez Labadi indicated that this situation has even led them to think that “if they had not sought to obtain justice, perhaps fewer [family members] would have died.397 In this regard, the Court considers that the violation of the right to integrity of the next of kin of the victims is also due to the lack of effective investigations to clarify the facts and punish those responsible and, in general, the impunity in which the cases remain, which exacerbates the feelings of frustration, helplessness, and anxiety. In particular, the Court observes that the lack of investigation and of a response from the State authorities has harmed the personal integrity of Eloisa Barrios, who has been behind the proceedings at the national and the international levels, because “[e]verything she has done this far has only increased her emotional torment, because she has had to learn about and […] deal with all the channels that maintain the impossibility of obtaining justice.”398 311. Moreover, the Court considers that, in some cases, the harm to the right to integrity of the next of kin of the victims is manifested in the fact that they felt obliged to move elsewhere because they were afraid (supra para. 163), leaving the village of Guanayén in which almost all their family lived before the first death occurred, causing the disintegration and rupture of the harmonious relations of certain members of the Barrios family. Expert witness Valdez Labadi stated that “the forced flight of most of them from the village where they had set down their roots and wanted to stay, the separation, has been very painful because, living far away, each of them feel greater helplessness.”399 312. Based on the above, the Court concludes that the State violated the right to personal integrity established in Article 5 of the Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of the following people: Justina Barrios, Brígida Oneyda Barrios, Maritza Barrios, Elbira Barrios, Eloisa Barrios, Inés Josefina Barrios, Lilia Ysabel Solórzano Barrios, Luisa del Carmen Barrios, Pablo Julián Solórzano Barrios, Jorge Antonio Barrios Ortuño, Carlos Alberto Ortuño, Orismar Carolina Alzul García, Ronis David Barrios Alzul, Roniel Alberto 393 Cf. Expert opinion of Susana Migdalia Valdez Labadi (merits file, tome III, folio 971). 394 Cf. Affidavit made by Brígida Oneyda Barrios, supra note 171, folio 882; Affidavit made by Lilia Ysabel Solórzano Barrios, supra note 193, folios 897 and 898; Affidavit made by Luisa del Carmen Barrios, supra note 193, folio 902; Affidavit made by Pablo Julián Solórzano Barrios, supra note 193, folio 921; Affidavit made by Elbira Barrios, supra note 192, folio 893; Affidavit made by Víctor Daniel Cabrera Barrios, supra note 162, folio 925, and Testimony given by Eloisa Barrios during the public hearing, supra note 164. 395 Cf. Affidavit made by Luisa del Carmen Barrios, supra note 193, folios 902 and 903. 396 Cf. Affidavit made by Brígida Oneyda Barrios, supra note 171, folio 884; Affidavit made by Lilia Ysabel Solórzano Barrios, supra note 193, folio 897; Affidavit made by Luisa del Carmen Barrios, supra note 193, folio 903; Affidavit made by Pablo Julián Solórzano Barrios, supra note 193, folio 920; Affidavit made by Elbira Barrios, supra note 192, folio 893; Affidavit made by Maritza Barrios, supra note 193, folio 907; Affidavit made by Víctor Daniel Cabrera Barrios, supra note 162, folios 924 and 926, and Testimony given by Eloisa Barrios during the public hearing, supra note 164. 397 Cf. Expert opinion of Susana Migdalia Valdez Labadi, supra note 393, folio 970. 398 Cf. Expert opinion of Susana Migdalia Valdez Labadi, supra note 393, folio 969. 399 Cf. Expert opinion of Susana Migdalia Valdez Labadi, supra note 393, folio 971. 97

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