dedicated to the civilians who died during the 36 years it lasted, and that “special mention
be made of the numerous massacres perpetrated against the civilian population during
those years.” In addition, they asked that the museum be built on a lot selected by the
victims of the massacres, and that the construction costs of the said museum “be taken
from the annual budgetary allocation of the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense. The State
“undert[ook] to arrange with the National Reparations Program, the Ministry of Culture and
Sports, and the National Fund for Peace (FONAPAZ), for the construction of the museum
requested by the victims.” It indicated that it would be constructed “in accordance with the
budget” allocated to these institutions for “this type of construction project and in keeping
with [their] institutional mandates.”
280. The Court appreciates the State’s willingness to implement this measure of
reparation which is designed to recover the memory of the victims of this case, and takes
note of the undertakings it has made.
C.1.4. Improvement of infrastructure and implementation of basic services and
social programs in Pacux
281. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to implement communal
reparations established by mutual agreement with the survivors of the community of Río
Negro. The Commission did not specify what these measures could be. The representatives
asked that the Court order “improvements in the provision of basic services in the Pacux
settlement,” including354 the supply of free electricity, and the “provision of resources for
the reconstruction of the social fabric and the Maya Achí culture.”355 They also asked that
administration of the resources destined to the preservation and rescue of the Maya Achí
culture include “the active and preferential participation” of the victims.
282. The State undertook to arrange improvements to the Pacux health center with the
Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance and to “supply it with medicines [and with]
permanent qualified human resources in the area of physical, psychological and dental
health care.” In addition, it indicated that it would arrange with the corresponding entities
354
Among other matters, the representatives asked the Court to order measures designed to: (a) improve
the Pacux health center by providing medicines, permanent human resources qualified in attention to physical,
mental and dental health, equipped ambulances, and sufficient resources to create programs for the victims of
human rights violations; (b) provide “resources for the design of food security and nutrition programs for the
surviving families, through the Food Security Secretariat, and with the participation of ADIVIMA, because the
inhabitants of the Pacux settlement do not have an appropriate place to work the land or to be able to raise
animals that could be useful to feed themselves as well as to sell […] to procure sufficient income for their […] food
and subsistence […],” and (c) “improve the infrastructure” of the Pacux settlement in order to guarantee the basic
needs of the inhabitants. Specifically, they requested improvements in the roads and avenues in the settlement,
“measures to ensure all the needs for water of the inhabitants of Pacux” and the installation of “systems of
sanitation, drainage, treatment plants, rain water and boiled water [sic]” in the settlement, as well as the provision
of free electricity. Lastly, they asked that the State be ordered “[t]o rebuild, improve and equip the primary schools
in the Pacux settlement […]” and introduce “a bilingual (Spanish and Achí) high school program for the
continuation of the education service that exists in this community.”
355
In addition to other elements, the representatives requested the following measures “in order to preserve
the collective memory, the cultural sustainability and all expressions of the cultural practices of the community: (a)
“implementation of programs to make the new generations aware of the culture, values, principles and
philosophies of the Achí people, emphasizing the experience undergone by the community of Río Negro […]”; (b)
“the creation of programs to locate and access existing documentation on the culture and history of the Maya Achí
people […]”; (c) “implementation of programs to rescue the traditional modus vivendi of the people […]”; (d) “[t]he
improvement and promotion of the ‘Rabinal Achí Community Museum’ so that it exhibits fundamental elements of
the Maya Achí culture […] that are no longer practiced by the victims of the community of Río Negro who live in the
Pacux settlement,” and (e) “[t]he creation of spaces to encourage the reproduction of the art and culture of the
Maya Achí peoples […].”
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