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f) providing the necessary means for giving and guaranteeing primary,
secondary and university education to the children of Mr. Oscar José BlancoRomero and Mrs. Alejandra Josefina Iriarte de Blanco;
g) issuing an official certificate whereby Aleoscar Russeth Blanco-Iriarte be
authorized to leave the country, with her mother’s previous consent;
h) designing teaching aids and regular courses in all enrollment, training,
promotion and advancement programmes for members of the armed forces of
Venezuela and of the DISIP, dealing with human rights and particularly with
the state duties on the matter and with the absolute prohibition of torture and
of forced disappearance of persons;
i) designing and implementing a permanent training programme on human
rights for judges and prosecutors, specifically including as subjects of study
international human rights rules, jurisprudence and case law on forced
disappearance, and the writ of habeas corpus;
j) to institute a memorial day aimed at awakening the conscience of
Venezuelan society in order to avoid recurrence of events such as those
reported in the instant case; and
k) adapting domestic
international standards.
legislation
concerning
forced
disappearance
to
Arguments by the State
92.
The State contended that:
a) in the course of the public hearing, as a token of respect and consideration
towards the victims, it “requested the Court permission to present its
apologies directly” to them;
b) regarding the “closing of the prosecution” ordered on may 14, 2004 in the
inquest into the forced disappearance of Messrs. Roberto Javier HernándezPaz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández, such decision was notified to the
victims, but they have failed to provide information that might enable the
reopening of such inquest, and no new pieces of evidence as might guarantee
such reopening thereof have appeared;
c) the proceedings for the forced disappearance of Mr. Oscar José BlancoRomero are at the “oral and public trial stage.” However, it has not been
possible to hold the hearing of the case because “the persons called to testify
during the trial failed to appear”, and they “are vital for the Prosecution to be
able to establish the responsibility of the accused parties and therefore have
them effectively punished”; and
d) a statute has been enacted whereby forced disappearance has been
described as a crime, which has appeared in the Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria
(Special Official Gazette) No. 5,768 of April 13, 2005, something which
“decisively contributes to prevent [the] commission of such crimes.”
Furthermore, the “lecture programmes for public servants whose duties touch
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