-6group of the Technical Research Body.” Despite the fact that the next of kin of
the victims have expressed their reluctance to become a civil party in the
investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has set up spaces so that the
Fiscal may establish contact with them;
c)
disposed of the budget to erect a monument in memory of the victims,
and it proposed that it be located in the city of Bucaramanga, the regional
capital closest to the place of the facts. It requested that the representatives
indicate at least three locations for the monument, without having received a
response;
d)
with regard to the act of acknowledgment of responsibility, on June
24, 2005 in a meeting held with the representatives of the petitioners, the
State informed them of its decision to hold said act on July 15, 2005 and
requested their collaboration in achieving the presence of the next of kin of
the victims at the act. Likewise, the invitations to the act were given to them
and they were informed “of their willingness to assume the cost of
transportation, lodging, and food of the next of kin of the victims, for the
period of time necessary to assist to the act, according to the distances from
the normal places of residency.” On July 13, 2005 it received a
communication signed by the representatives, in which they returned the
invitations to the act of acknowledgment programmed for July 15, 2005, since
“they did not consider that the event unilaterally programmed by the
government […] complied with the conditions imposed by the Court.” Said act
had the solemnity, respect, and protocol required and the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs was present, as well as the next of kin of some victims, and
representatives of other state entities such as the Ombudsman of the People
and the Attorney General of the Nation;
e)
regarding the medical and psychological treatment, the Ministry of
Social Protection provided the representatives with the names of the
institutions located in the cities indicated by them that offer specialized
attention in said treatments. “Given the characteristics of the institutions that
offer health services within the System, the State will comply with the
Judgment through its own institutions that offer Health Services, at all levels
of complexity.” It is waiting for the representatives to provide the name and
location of the next of kin of the victims in order to identify the people that
require the health services and psychosocial attention;
f)
regarding the establishment of the conditions of return of the next of
kin of the victim Antonio Flórez Contreras, the Administrative Department and
the National Police must still carry out the study of the level of risk and
degree of threat that will allow the determination of the corresponding
measures of protection for the case, taking into account the information that
may be given by the representatives on the composition of the family group,
where they plan to come back, as well as their current location;
g)
in the meeting held on June 24, 2005, the representatives stated that,
up to this date, “the declaring next of kin” had not been the victims of any
threats or retaliation and they agreed to be attentive to any abnormal
situation in order to take the measures of protection required;