5 16. In this end, the Court recalls that the search and delivery of remains and the subsequent investigation into the facts not only allows for closure for the next-of-kin of the disappeared victim, but also facilitates the attainment of justice. The remains are proof of what has taken place and provide evidence of the treatment the victim received, the manner in which he was executed, the modus operandi, and the efforts make to conceal it. The place in which such remains are found may also provide valuable information on the perpetrators or the institution they belonged to, above all when dealing with clandestine cemeteries or graves located on State premises.10 17. Although the State values the initiative regarding the "Ley de la Comisión para la Búsqueda de Personas, Víctimas de la Desaparición Forzada y otras formas de Desaparición [Law on the Commission for the Search of Victims of Forced Disappearance and Other Missing Persons]," it deems it to be crucial that the State adopt specific measures to promptly and fully comply with its obligations to search and locate the mortal remains of María and Josefa Tiu Tojín. In this regard, the State shall submit a schedule for all the efforts it will make to search, locate and identify the remains, the possible dates thereof, and the institutions or persons that will conduct them. In this schedule, the State shall indicate the administrative or budgetary measures it will take prior to beginning its investigatory activities. It must also identify difficulties encountered in the case and a plan to overcome them within a certain period. C) Regarding the obligation to publish, at least once, in the Official Gazette, and in another national daily newspaper, Chapters I, IV and VI and paragraphs 67 to 120 from Chapter VII of the Judgment (Operative Paragraph 8 of the Judgment) 18. The State reported that on “March 3 and 31, 2009, the Judgment on Merits, Reparations, and Costs was published in the written media "The Official Gazette or the Central American Gazette" and the newspaper "El Periódico.” The State submitted copies of both publications. 19. The representatives noted they “did not have any observations” regarding the State’s information, and that this point “had been satisfactorily complied with.” 20. For its part, the Commission appreciated that the State had fully complied with this point. 21. The Court notes that the State has provided documentation showing the publications were made in the Official Gazette/Central American Gazette on March 3, 2009, and in El Periódico, a widely circulated national newspaper, on March 31, 2009. In this respect, the Court deems that the State’s publications satisfy the Court’s order, for which it declares that the State has complied with this reparation measure. D) Regarding the obligation to broadcast on the radio, in the K'iche language and Spanish, one just one occasion, Chapters I, IV and VI and paragraphs 67 to 120 from Chapter VII, as well as the Operative Paragraphs, of the [...] Judgment, excluding the footnotes (Operative Paragraph 9 of the Judgment) 22. The State indicated that “on October 11 and 18, 2009 the Judgment was announced on Radio Quiché from 11:00 to 11:45 a.m.” in “Spanish.” The State reported that, following 10 Case of Molina Theissen, supra note 9, Considering Clause 22.

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