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60.
That without lessening the importance of creating and implementing the
aforementioned Diploma, the Court observes that training, as an permanent learning
system, must have a permanent character so that the officials may acquire new
knowledge, develop capabilities, specialize in new areas and adapt their skills to
perform better the tasks entrusted them.
61.
That this Court reminds that international obligations bind all the organs of
the State Party and, considering the essential role prosecutors and judges are called
to play in this matter, especially when supervising and controlling the behavior by
the Armed and Police Forces in states of emergency, the action taken so that they
receive instruction about the international standards related to the judicial protection
of human rights must be of a permanent nature.
62.
That the Court reminds that human rights education, in the security forces
and in the judicial and control bodies of the State, is of the essence in order to
generate guarantees that acts such as the ones in the instant case will not be
repeated. For such reason, it sets much store on the progress indicated by the State
in the course of the hearing and considers that the State has complied with this
reparation measure, as regards designing and establishing human rights education
programs, in the understanding that they are permanent programs and that they are
addressed to all members of the Armed Forces and of the National Police, regardless
of promotion, as well as to prosecutors and judges.
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Payment of compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages
63.
That as relates to the obligation to pay the amounts fixed in paragraphs 139,
140, 143, 144 and 145 of the Judgment, as compensation for pecuniary and nonpecuniary damages (operative paragraph number eleven in the Judgment), the State
indicated that the Procuraduría General del Estado [Office of the General Attorney for
the State] requested, by an official letter dated on August 13, 2007, the Minister of
Economy and Finance to increase the budget of the former body by 814,000.00
United States Dollars in order to comply with such payment. Likewise, the State
reported that on September 1, 2008 all of the financial reparations were paid to the
next of kin, except the interest amounts accrued on overdue payments.
64.
That the representatives confirmed that the State has cancelled all of the
financial reparations, but they pointed out that interest payment on overdue
amounts has been delayed since the month of October 2008. The representatives
acknowledged that, “the Ministry has deployed great efforts trying to obtain funds for
the interest payments for having paid the principal for reparations to the next of kin
one month in arrears.”
65.
That in the course of the hearing the State requested the Court to indicate
whether it should go ahead in complying with payment of interest on overdue
amounts, for in its view the “steps taken in order to obtain the funds to pay overdue
interest has been criticized by the representatives of the victims,” who deemed that
the State has “created a need and expectations they did not have to receive
payment for such delay, amounting to 6.000 dollars.”
66.
That the Commission pointed out in the course of the hearing, for the sake of
clarification, that the representatives observed that the Ministry had deployed great
efforts trying to effect payment, but no effort trying to investigate, but that such