ORDER OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS*
OF SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
CASE OF ‘LAS DOS ERRES’ MASSACRE v. GUATEMALA
MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENT
HAVING SEEN:
1.
The Judgment on the preliminary objection, merits, reparations and costs
(hereinafter, the "Judgment") delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
(hereinafter, the "Inter-American Court" or "the Court”) on November 24, 2009.
2.
The Order on Monitoring Compliance with Judgment of July 6, 2011, in which
the Court declared, inter alia, that:
[…]
3.
[…T]he Court will keep the procedure open to monitor compliance with those
aspects that remain pending compliance in this case, namely:
a)
To investigate, without delay, in a serious and effective manner, the
facts that gave rise to the violations declared in the judgment, in order to
prosecute and, as appropriate, punish those responsible (eighth operative
paragraph of the judgment);
b)
To initiate the pertinent disciplinary, administrative or criminal actions
under domestic law, against the State authorities who may have committed the
facts and obstructed the investigation of them (ninth operative paragraph of
the judgment);
c)
To adopt the pertinent measures to amend the Law on Amparo,
Habeas Corpus and Constitutionality in Guatemala (tenth operative paragraph
of the judgment);
d)
To proceed with the exhumation, identification and return to their next
of kin of the remains of those who died during the Dos Erres massacre
(eleventh operative paragraph of the judgment);
e)
To implement training courses on human rights for different State
authorities (twelfth operative paragraph of the judgment);
f)
g)
To organize the public acts ordered (fourteenth operative paragraph);
To erect a monument (fifteenth operative paragraph);
h)
To provide the psychological and medical treatment required by the
155 victims (sixteenth operative paragraph);
i)
To create a webpage to search for children abducted and illegally
retained (seventeenth operative paragraph); and
*
Judge Margarette May Macaulay informed the Tribunal that, due to force majeure reasons, she could not
participate in the deliberation and signature of this Order.