2 13. In the present Case of the Moiwana Community, following the Court’s Judgment of 6/15/2005, a ceremony took place in Suriname on 11/29/2005 that should not pass unnoticed, and that well reveals the advances of human conscience within our region. A communication emitted the following day (11/30/2005) by the Forest Peoples Programme and Reuters Foundation, reported that: "Surviving relatives of 39 Maroon people killed in Suriname's Moiwana Community massacre have returned to their birthplace for the first time since the 1986 killings for a memorial service. Women of the N'djuka people, dressed in blue and white mourning wraps, wept during the ceremony held on Tuesday near three giant memorial oil lamps while Moiwana dignitaries sprinkled the soil with water to ward off evil. The ceremony took place after Suriname agreed this week to heed an International Court order to compensate victims of the 1986 massacre when soldiers killed 39 unarmed N'djuka Maroon people, mainly women and children. (...) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica in June told the government [of Suriname] to compensate the surviving relatives and punish those responsible in a ruling that made the return of the villagers possible. (...) The Maroon people represent about 15 percent of Suriname's population and are descendants of escaped African slaves. (...)". 14. A day later (12/1/2005), another communication of the Caribbean Net News, gave notice that a presidential representative affirmed in that ceremony that “the Moiwana Community will be rebuilt,” and another high official promised “to give the grounds of the Moiwana community collectively to the villagers.” This communication also informed that: "In an emotional ceremony (...), surviving relatives remembered the more than 39 men, women and children killed in a military attack on the Maroon village Moiwana in Suriname. (...) It was the first time in 19 years that most of the people had come back to the now abandoned area where the innocent villagers were slaughtered. [...It was] noted that although Suriname was convicted by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and the relatives of the victims will receive compensation, 'this will not take away the pain in our hearts'. During the ceremony survivors recounted the events of that tragic day, how brothers, sisters, pregnant women and old men were gunned down at point blank range by army troops. (...)". 15. In the present case of the Moiwana Community the issue of the return – evidently voluntary, the only type admissible – of those surviving community members who opt for it, comes to the fore. This brings to the forefront the issues of delimitation, demarcation and titling of the community’s territories ordered by the Court (supra). The question of the return (of refugees and displaced persons) has been the object of particular attention in recent years, within the United Nations (in particular, by the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its Commission on Human Rights). The UNHCR has included it in its recent Global Consultations on International Protection, in which I had the opportunity to take part. In the 4th session of those Consultations (April 2002), for example, particular concern was expressed in assuring the effective security of returnees, their means of survival, work conditions, social reintegration, and