and on the Internet must be made within three and six months, respectively, of notification
of this Judgment.
275. Furthermore, based on the State’s offer (supra para. 273), the Court establishes that
the State must reproduce the official summary of this Judgment in Spanish and in the Maya
Achí language, and distribute it, in coordination with the representatives, in the
communities in the department of Baja Verapaz. The distribution must be carried out within
one year term, with a print run of at least 1,500 copies.
C.1.2. Public act of acknowledgment of responsibility
276. The Commission asked, in a general, for the recovery of the memory of the deceased
and disappeared victims. For their part, the representatives asked the Court to order the
organization of a “public act of acknowledgment of international responsibility and of public
apology to make amends to the victims and in memory of those executed during the Río
Negro massacres.” They asked that this act be carried out in Pacux; that it be headed by
the President of the Republic, and that the President of the Supreme Court of Justice be
present. They also asked that the act be broadcast “by television and radio.” The State
expressed its “willingness to carry out this act in accordance with the work agendas of the
said authorities” and in keeping with “the budget allocated in the near future to cover” these
reparations.
277. The Court assesses positively the State’s willingness to implement this measure of
reparation. Consequently, the Court stipulates that the public act of acknowledgment of
responsibility must be held in Pacux, in Spanish and in the Maya Achí language, within one
year of notification of this Judgment. During the act, reference must be made to the five
massacres that occurred in the instant case, to the grave and massive human rights
violations perpetrated by the State, and to its international responsibility. The act must be
broadcast by television and/or radio. Also, owing to the specific characteristics of this case,
and in order to create awareness of the consequences of the facts of this case, senior
officials of the Guatemalan Executive and Judiciary Branches must attend the act of
acknowledgment.353
278. The realization and details of the said public ceremony must be agreed with the
victims and their representatives within six months of notification of this Judgment. The act
of acknowledgment must be implemented no more than one year after notification of the
Judgment. Since the representatives have indicated that not all the victims live in the
Pacux settlement, which the State has not contested, the latter must guarantee the
presence of the victims who do not live in Pacux and who wish to attend the public act of
acknowledgment of responsibility and, to this end, it must cover the necessary
transportation costs within Guatemala.
C.1.3. Creation of a museum in honor of the victims of the internal armed conflict
279. The Commission asked, in general, that the State recover the memory of the victims
who died and disappeared. The representatives asked that, “in order to dignify the victims
and conserve the historical memory,” “a commemorative museum be created in honor of
the memory of the numerous victims of the internal armed conflict,” with a special section
353
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs, supra, para. 81, and Case of the Kichwa
Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador, supra, para. 305.
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