account the context and the circumstances of the instant case, according to which the forced disappearance of persons was a practice carried out in Guatemala during the internal armed conflict, and the fact that, up until this time, after having been forced to board a helicopter, there is no news of their whereabouts, the Court considers that the 17 people indicated by the representatives remain victims of forced disappearance to date. 127. Based on the above, the Court finds that the State has violated the rights recognized in Articles 3, 4(1), 5(1), 5(2) and 7(1) of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, all in relation to the obligations established in Article I(a) of the Convention on Forced Disappearance, to the detriment of Ramona Lajuj, Manuel Chen Sánchez, Aurelia Alvarado Ivoy, Cornelio Osorio Lajúj, Demetria Osorio Tahuico, Fermin Tum Chén, Francisco Chen Osorio, Francísco Sánchez Sic, Héctor López Osorio, Jerónimo Osorio Chen, Luciano Osorio Chen, Pablo Osorio Tahuico, Pedro Chén Rojas, Pedro López Osorio, Pedro Osorio Chén, Sebastiana Osorio Tahuico and Soterio Pérez Tum. The Court also finds that the State violated Article 19 of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof, to the detriment of Manuel Chen Osorio, a minor at the time of the facts. X RIGHT TO PERSONAL INTEGRITY IN RELATION TO THE RIGHT TO HONOR AND DIGNITY, THE PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY AND SERVITUDE, THE OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND GUARANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, THE RIGHTS OF THE FAMILY, FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION, AND THE GENERAL OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND GUARANTEE RIGHTS 128. In this Chapter, taking into account the acknowledgment of responsibility made by the State (supra para. 17), the Court will analyze the presumed violations of personal integrity in relation to: (a) the consequences of the rape suffered by María Eustaquia Uscap Ivoy; (b) the consequences on the 17 children taken from the Río Negro community, who were submitted to conditions of slavery and servitude, and (c) the survivors of the Río Negro massacres, owing to the violations of their freedom of conscience and religion and the consequences on the integrity of the survivors of the Río Negro massacres due to the effects on their culture and the social fabric of the community. A. Violations of the rights to personal integrity and to honor and dignity of María Eustaquia Uscap Ivoy, owing to the consequences of the rape she suffered A.1. Arguments of the parties and of the Inter-American Commission 129. The Commission and the representatives indicated that the rape committed by members of the State’s security forces affected the physical, mental and moral integrity of the victims, destroyed their dignity, and invaded one of the most intimate realms of their life, that of their physical and sexual space, divesting them of their ability to make decisions about their body. In addition, they argued that the acts of rape committed against the women of the community of Río Negro constituted acts of torture, because they were perpetrated by State agents, resulted in severe mental and physical suffering for the victims, and were intended to humiliate them and exterminate the community. Thus, they argued that the rape of the women constituted a “weapon of terror” for the destruction of the Mayan population, since it “[destroyed] marital and social ties, generate[d] social isolation, and stigmatized them within the community, cause[d] abortions and filicide, and prevent[ed] marriages and births” within the group. Among these cases, the Commission and the representatives mentioned that of María Eustaquia Uscap Ivoy. 53

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