Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of January 27, 2009 Case of Bámaca Velásquez v. Guatemala Provisional Measures and Monitoring Compliance with Judgment HAVING SEEN: A) Monitoring Compliance with Judgment 1. The Judgment on the merits rendered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”, the Inter-American Court” or “the Tribunal”) on November 25, 2000. 2. The Judgment on reparations and costs delivered by the Inter-American Court on February 22, 2002. 3. The Order of the Court of November 27, 2003, in which it declared, inter alia, that: “the State ha[d] fully complied with operative paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 of the Judgment on reparations [...] regarding compensation” for pecuniary and nonpecuniary damages, costs and expenses. 4. The Orders of the Court of March 3, 2005 and July 4, 2006, in which it decided, inter alia, “[t]o require the State to adopt all necessary measures to effectively and promptly comply with the orders that have not been completed [...].” 5. The Order of the Court of July 10, 2007, in which it declared that “the State ha[d] fully complied with the third operative paragraph of the Judgment on reparations” regarding the duty to publish the chapter on proven facts and the operative paragraphs of the Judgment on the merits in the Official Gazette and in another newspaper of national circulation and to hold a public ceremony to acknowledge its responsibility in connection with the facts of the instant case and to make reparation to the victims. 6. The Order of the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) of November 11, 2008, whereby, in the exercise of the powers of the Court to monitor compliance with its own decisions, and upon prior consultation with the other judges of this Court, it was decided to call the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission”), the Republic of Guatemala (hereinafter “the State” or “Guatemala”) and the representatives of the victim and his next of kin and of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures (hereinafter “the representatives”) to a private hearing to obtain information from the