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15.
The brief of May 7, 2008, through which the representatives informed on the
alleged situation that had been occurring with regard to payment of the compensations
ordered in the Judgment, as well as the note of the Secretariat of May 14, 2008,
through which, following the President’s instructions, it asked Colombia to refer to the
situation expressed by the representatives in the previous brief in its next report.
16.
The brief of May 23, 2008, through which the State presented a report on the
measures ordered in seeking to comply with some of the reparation measures stated in
the Judgment.
17.
The brief of May 28, 2008, through which the representatives made several
statements regarding the payment of the compensations ordered by the Court.
18.
The brief of June 18, 2008, through which the State referred to compliance with
the sixteenth and seventeenth operative paragraphs of the Judgment, with regard to
that indicated by the representatives (supra Having Seen paragraph 15).
19.
The brief of June 23, 2008, through which the Commission presented its
observations to the State’s briefs of May 23, 2008 and that of the representatives of
the 7 and 28 days of the same month and year, with regard to the payment of the
compensation.
20.
The brief of July 11, 2008, through which the representatives provided
additional information regarding the impact the procedure adopted and that had been
developed up to then by the State regarding the payment of the compensations would
have on the beneficiaries.
21.
The Order issued by the President of November 26, 2008, through which she
summoned the Inter-American Commission, the State, and the representatives to a
private hearing at the Court’s headquarters on January 20, 2009, with the objective of
the Tribunal obtaining information from the State regarding compliance of the
judgment and hearing the observations of both the Commission and the
representatives in this sense.
22.
The private hearing on monitoring compliance with the Judgment held on
January 20, 2009 during the LXXXII Regular Session of the Tribunal at its
headquarters,2 as well as the documents presented by the State during the hearing.3
2
The following appeared at this hearing: for the State, Carlos Franco, Director of the Presidential
Program of Human Rights, Luz Marina Gil, Executive Director of the Military Criminal Justice, Ministry of
National Defense, Angela Margarita Rey, Director of Human Rights and DIH, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Fernando Arévalo, Director of Judicial Defense of the Nation, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Justice,
Francisco Javier Echeverri Lara, Director of International Affairs of the Solicitor General of the Republic,
Sandra Janeth Castro Ospina, Coordinator of the Human Rights Unit of the Solicitor General of the Republic,
Colonel Juan Carlos Gómez, Human Rights Director, Ministry of National Defense, Colonel Efraín Oswaldo
Aragón, Human Rights Coordinator, National Police Force, Gloria Beatriz Gaviria, Human Rights Coordinator,
Ministry of Social Protection, Juana Acosta López, Coordinator of the Inter-Institutional Operative Group of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Soto, Coordinator of the Area of Information and Precautionary and
Provisional Measures, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Santiago Arteaga, Public Prosecutor of the Human Rights
Unit of the Solicitor General of the Republic, Captain de Corbeta Enoc Salcedo, Advisor to the Human Rights
Office, Ministry of National Defense, Natalia Salamanca, Advisor to the Human Rights Office, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Diana Bravo R., Advisor to the Human Rights Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and General
Jorge Rodríguez, Head of the Joint Institutional Defense Office of the General Command of the Armed
Forces; for the Inter-American Commission, Elisabeth Abi-Mershed, Deputy Executive Secretary and Juan
Pablo Albán Alencastro and Lilly Ching Soto, advisors; for the representatives, Luz Marina Monzón, Gustavo