62 223. It is a principle of International Law that every violation of an international obligation which results in harm creates a duty to make adequate reparation.242 This obligation to redress is regulated by International Law in all aspects.243 In its decisions, the Court has based itself on Article 63(1) of the American Convention. 224. Prior to examining the reparations claimed, the Court notes that during the friendly settlement process, the State and the representatives signed several agreements whereby the State undertook to make several reparations.244 In this regard, in the instant case the State made specific claims regarding the reparations that it had complied with. The representatives requested certain reparation measures and referred to the steps, which the State had taken, in conformity with the aforementioned agreements. Lastly, although the Commission requested the Court to order the State several reparations, it did not expressly refer to what the representatives and the State indicated. A) Injured party 225. The Court considers the “injured party,” in conformity with Article 63(1) of the American Convention, those who have been declared victims of a violation of a right contained therein. Consequently, the Court considers an “injured party” the 155 victims indicated in the Commission’s application, as well as in the following table, who in their character as victims of the violations declared in chapters VIII, IX, and X will be beneficiaries of what the Court orders below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ramiro Antonio Osorio Cristales Salomé Armando Gómez Hernández Baldomero Pineda Batres Catalina Arana Pineda de Ruano Francisca Morales Contreras Tomasa Galicia González Inocencio González Santos Nicolás Montepeque Galicia 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 Gloria Marina Salazar Castillo María Vicenta Moran Solís María Luisa Corado Hilario López Jiménez Guillermina Ruano Barahona Rosalina Castañeda Lima Teodoro Jiménez Pernillo Luz Flores 242 Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of July 21, 1989. Series C No. 7, para. 25; Case of Garibaldi v. Brazil, supra note 23, para. 150, and Case of Dacosta Cadogan v. Barbados, supra note 28, para. 94. 243 Cf. Case of Aloeboetoe et al v. Surinam. Merits. Judgment of December 4, 1991. Series C No. 11, para. 44; Case of Garibaldi v. Brazil, supra note 23, para. 150, and Case of Dacosta Cadogan v. Barbados, supra note 28, para. 94. 244 Friendly settlement agreement signed on April 1, 2000.The steps and/or measures include: a) to make public, through a press conference, the recognition of state’s responsibility for the facts of the massacre, and the President of the Republic will apologize to the survivors and next of kin of the victims, and to the people of Guatemala; b) perform an investigation to identify and punish those responsible for the massacre, both direct perpetrators and masterminds, as well as those responsible for the delay in justice; and c) to make reparations in conformity with that agreed by the parties, taking into account the principles established by the Inter-American Court, to the surviving victims and next of kin of the victims, through collective reparations such as: restoring and completing the monument at the Municipal Cemetery of Las Cruces according to the design presented by FAMDEGUA, as well as the construction and installation of a three-meter cross with the corresponding plaque at the well of Las Dos Erres, and produce a documentary for television, testimonial and educational in nature, approved by the parties involved, containing a narration of the Las Dos Erres massacre, a description of the facts, mention of the victims, and recognition of the institutional responsibility of the State in the human rights violations committed. Additionally, the State committed to provide specialized or private medical care, for psychological treatment of the surviving victims and next-of-kin of the victims who need it; establish a Commission for Identifying and Locating the Victims and Next-of-Kin of the Las Dos Erres Massacre, and to make economic compensation to the surviving victims and the next-of-kin already identified. The compensation will be defined in agreement with the parties, and the definition of the economic compensation will be an integral part of the agreement.