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acknowledgment be agreed with the victims and their representatives, with participation of the
highest State authorities participate in it.
302.
The Commission requested that the relevant satisfaction measures be ordered.
303. The State considers sufficient, taking into account its acknowledgment of responsibility,
the issuance of a conviction, as well as its proper publication. For this reason, it stated that
there was no place to carry out the public act of acknowledgment of responsibility, because the
Court has recognized that the issuance of the judgment and its adequate publication is
sufficient, even in cases of forced disappearance.
304. The Court orders, as it has done in other cases,318 that the State publish, within six
months from the notification of this judgment: (a) the official summary of this judgment prepared
by the Court, once only, in a newspaper with wide national circulation and in the official gazette
in a legible and adequate font size, and (b) this judgment in its entirety, available for at least one
year, on the official website of the President of the Republic. The State must inform this Court
immediately once it proceeds to make each of the publications ordered, regardless of the oneyear term to present its first report ordered in operative paragraph 21 of this judgment.
305. The Court assesses positively the partial acknowledgment of responsibility by the State,
which could represent partial satisfaction for the victims in the face of the violations declared in
this judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as it has done in other cases,319 the Court deems
it necessary, in order to repair the harm caused to the victims, to prevent events such as those
in this case from being repeated, and in consideration of the request by the representatives,
order that the State carry out a public act of acknowledgment of international responsibility in
Colombia, in relation to the facts of this case.
306. In said act, the State must refer to the facts and human rights violations declared in this
judgment. The act must be carried out through a public ceremony that must be disclosed. The
State will have to ensure the participation of the victims declared in this judgment, if they so
wish, and invite the organizations that represented them in national and international instances
to the event. The realization and other details of said public ceremony must be previously and
duly consulted with the victims and their representatives. The state authorities that must be
present or participate in said act must be high-ranking state officials. To comply with this
obligation, the State has a period of one year from the notification of this judgment.
E.
Other measures requested
307. The representatives requested that a memorial document be drawn up and published,
honoring the name and life of the victims, describing the context and political reality of
Aguachica, and giving an account of the three crimes. Its publication should be carried out in
national and regional written media, as well as its web pages. They also requested that a
commemorative plaque be erected in the San Roque park in the municipality of Aguachica, in
which the State acknowledges its responsibility for what happened to Noel Emiro Omeara
Carrascal, Manuel Guillermo Omeara Miraval, and Héctor Álvarez Sánchez. Its content should
be agreed with the victims and the State must guarantee its care and maintenance. Finally,
they requested that the State grant educational scholarships to the children of Manuel Guillermo
Omeara Miraval, Manuel Guillermo, Elba Katherine, and Claudia Marcela, all with the surnames
Omeara Álvarez, to pursue postgraduate studies until they complete their professional training.
318
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series C
No. 88, para. 79, and Case of López Soto et al. v. Venezuela, supra, para. 299.
319
Cf. Case of the “Street Children” (Villagrán Morales et al.) v. Guatemala. Reparations and Costs, supra, para.
209, and Case of López Soto et al. v. Venezuela, supra, para. 303.