G. Other measures requested 164. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to: (i) impose the appropriate administrative, disciplinary or criminal measures for the acts or omissions of state officials that contributed to the denial of justice and impunity; (ii) implement permanent training programs on human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law at military training academies, and (iii) strengthen the capacity of the judiciary to adequately and efficiently investigate the gross human rights violations committed during the armed conflict and punish those responsible, including by providing the necessary material and technical resources to ensure that proceedings unfold correctly. 165. The representatives asked that the Court order the State: (i) to investigate the public officials who have obstructed the investigations; (ii) to put in place guarantees for the return of those forcibly displaced, and also (iii) to implement a community development plan in the village of Los Josefinos and, as part of this plan, they asked the Court to order the State to execute measures to provide infrastructure and access to basic services in Los Josefinos; (iv) to implement a comprehensive public policy addressed at the prevention of internal displacement and at providing protection, humanitarian assistance and long-lasting solutions to the internally displaced; (v) to reinforce the mechanism for the protection of victims, witnesses and other procedural parties in Guatemala City and at the municipal level, and (vi) to preserve the Historical Archives of the National Police in order to safeguard access to justice for the victims of all the gross human rights violations that occurred during the armed conflict. 166. Regarding the reinforcement of the mechanism for the protection of victims, witnesses and other procedural parties, the State indicated that Guatemala now has the “Law for the protection of procedural subjects and persons connected with the administration of criminal justice, Congressional Decree 76-96, creating the Protection Service for procedural subjects and persons connected with the administration of criminal justice and to provide protection to officials and employees of the Judiciary, civil law enforcement personnel, and officials of the Public Prosecution Service as well as witnesses, expert witnesses, consultants, joint complainants, women victims of violence, their children, and other persons who are exposed to risk owing to their intervention in criminal proceedings.” In the case of the preservation of the Historical Archives of the National Police, the State indicated that, in 2020, the Supreme Court of Justice had ordered its definitive safeguard, requiring the protection, preservation, safeguard and operation of the Historical Archives of the National Police and ordering the Ministry of the Interior to refrain from adopting measures that would threaten the integrity of the Archives. It added that, subsequently, by Ministerial Decision 934-2020 of October 7, 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that the Historical Archives of the National Police formed part of the Nation’s cultural heritage. 167. With regard to the measures requested by the Commission, the Court recalls that, in the judgment handed down in the case of Myrna Mack Chang v. Guatemala, the State was ordered “to include training on human rights and international humanitarian law in the training courses for members of its Armed Forces, the police and law enforcement agencies.”241 In addition, in the judgment delivered in the case of the Las Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, the Court also ordered the State “to implement human rights training courses for different state authorities.”242 Consequently, taking into consideration the measures ordered in those two judgments, which, together, refer to the implementation of education and training programs for prosecutors, judges and members of the Armed Forces and that have general effects that go beyond the specific cases, 241 Cf. Case of Myrna Mack Chang v. Guatemala, supra, para. 282. 242 Cf. Case of the Las Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, supra, twelfth operative paragraph. 48

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