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sums received in reparation. The Foundation, a non-profit organization, shall be
established in the city of Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, and shall be composed
of the following persons, who have already accepted their appointments and shall
carry out their functions ad honorem :
Albert Jozef Brahim
Ilse Labadie
John C. de Miranda
Antonius H. te Dorsthorst
John Kent
Rodney R. Vrede
Armand Ronald Tjong A Hung.
104. The Court expresses its appreciation to the persons who have agreed to
participate in the Foundation, as a means of contributing to a true and effective
protection of human rights in the Americas.
105. At a plenary meeting, the members of the Foundation shall, with the
collaboration of the Executive Secretariat of the Court, define their organization,
statutes and by-laws, as well as the operational structure of the trust funds. The
Foundation shall transmit these documents to the Court after final approval.
The role of the Foundation shall be to act as trustee of the funds deposited in
Suritrust and to advise the beneficiaries as to the allocation of the reparations
received or of the income they obtain from the trust funds.
106. The Foundation shall provide advice to the beneficiaries. Although the
children of the victims are among the principal beneficiaries, this fact does not
release their mothers or the guardians in whose charge they may be from the
obligation of providing them with assistance, food, clothing and education free of
charge. The Foundation shall try to ensure that the compensation received by the
minor children of the victims be used to cover subsequent study expenses, or else to
create a small capital when they begin to work or get married, and that it only be
used for ordinary expenses when grave problems of health or family finances require
it.
107. For the operating expenses of the Foundation, the Government of Suriname
shall, within 30 days of its establishment, make a one-time contribution in the
amount of US$4,000 (four thousand dollars) or its equivalent in local currency at the
selling rate of exchange in force on the free market at the time of such payment.
108. Suriname shall not be permitted to restrict or tax the activities of the
Foundation or the operation of the trust funds beyond current levels, nor shall it
modify any conditions currently in force nor interfere in the Foundation’s decisions,
except in ways that would be favorable to it.
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109. As the Court stated in the Velásquez Rodríguez and Godínez Cruz cases, “the
State is obligated to use the means at its disposal to inform the relatives of the fate
of the victims and [. . .] the location of their remains” (Velásquez Rodríguez
Case, supra 46, para. 181; and, Godínez Cruz Case, supra 46, para. 191);