72 hospital where that leg was amputated. Her right arm is disabled because of a vaccine they applied due to the wounds suffered on her leg;173 ii) at the time of the facts she worked as a secretary; she contributed on a monthly basis to household expenses and earned minimum wage. She has not been able to get a job because of her missing leg and disabled arm;174 iii) she is single;175 and iv) after the facts she had to buy two prostheses, a valve for one of these, and the medicine required for rehabilitation. She constantly has to buy bandages. She has received therapy for her arm, but the damage is irreversible. She has suffered insomnia and depression and has undergone psychological treatment. She has covered all expenses in connection with her treatment, but cannot specify the exact amount spent.176 Other facts 66.61. The next of kin of the victims suffered pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage due to the deaths, disappearances or wounds of the victims, and due to the difficulties to obtain justice and to attempt that the facts not remain unpunished;177 66.62. that on April 24, 1989 the Civil Association Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero – Marzo (COFAVIC) was established with the main goals of “demanding elucidation of the facts pertaining to all the human rights violations during the February-March, 1989 events, by the bodies responsible for defense of citizens’ rights; accompanying and 173 Cf. testimony of Noraima Sosa Ríos rendered on March 27, 2002 at the 29th Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District. 174 Cf. testimony of Noraima Sosa Ríos rendered on March 27, 2002 at the 29th Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District. 175 Cf. testimony of Noraima Sosa Ríos rendered on March 27, 2002 at the 29th Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District. 176 Cf. testimony of Noraima Sosa Ríos rendered on March 27, 2002 at the 29th Notary Public of Libertador Municipality of the Federal District; March 20, 1989 invoice by Clínica Atias, Hospitalización y Servicios C.A.; and May 29, 1998 invoice of Fundación Hospital Ortopédico Infantil for change of prosthesis. 177 Cf. reports by experts Magdalena López de Ibáñez, Alicia B. Neuburger and Jesús María Casal and statements by Margarita Mederos, Francisco Moncada, Fernando Enrique Pérez, Braulio Ramón Guía Laya, Catalina Ramos de Guevara, Juan Carlos Suárez Sánchez, Henry Eduardo Herrera Hurtado, Rafael Castellanos, Iris Medina, Dilia Mendoza de Ramos, Gregoria Matilde Castillo, Xiomara Hernández, Rosa Julia Aldana Bastidas, Nelly Marcano, Nelly Freitez, Miguelina La Rosa, Emileidys Ferrán Cedeño, Mery Marina Castillo, Aura Rosa Liscano Betancourt, Hilda Rosa Páez, María Casilda Valero Suárez, Haydée Mavilu Blanco, María Teresa Rivas, Petra Bello, María Encarnación Salazar Campos, Noraima Sosa, Ana Jacinta Garrido, Toribia Ojeda, Olga María Álvarez de Tesara, Carmen Rufina Cabriles, Ivonne Josefina Pirela Chacón, Maritza Romero, Ingrid Ortega Zapata, Judith Borjas, Deisy Crespo, Ybelice Altagracia Ramírez, Juliana Quintana, Fredez Binda García Hernández, María Neria Guillén Pereira, Marisol Montenegro Cordero, submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on April 5, 8, 10 and 11, 2002 by the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin.