5 set up in the Central Bank of Honduras under the most favorable conditions permitted by Honduran banking practice. The children shall receive monthly payments from this trust fund, and at the age of twenty-five shall receive their proportionate part. 18. In its brief, dated September 29, 1989, the Commission justified its request in the following terms: This petition for clarification refers to the sum of money that is to be deposited in trust at the Central Bank of Honduras for the benefit of Héctor Ricardo, Nadia Waleska and Herling Lizzett Velásquez Guzmán, the children of the victim, until they each reach the age of twenty-five years of age. The jugdment does not contemplate any protective mechanism to preserve the current purchasing power of the award in the face of inflation or possible devaluations of the lempira. As the Court is aware, and as we indicate below, that loss of purchasing power by units of currency has historically been high throughout Latin American, in some countries sometimes reaching catastrophic proportions. Two fundamental reasons have persuaded the Commission to submit this petition: First, if the meaning and scope of the judgment are not clarified with respect to the future value of the compensation placed in trust, irreparable damage could be caused to the injured parties. As we state below, that damage is neither hypothetical nor trivial, but predictable and could practically annul the very value of the Court's decision, as well as its compensatory intent. Moreover, the Commission believes that such judgments in themselves hold a special, precedential legal value which goes well beyond the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court and its case law, since by their very nature, content and effect they have deservedly earned universal attention and represent a milestone in the development of the international humanitarian legal order. The Court's specific assumption of the supervision of compliance with its judgment is an eloquent indication of the responsability the Court assigns to full and exact compliance, and serves to justify the importance of the interpretation we request. In addressing the merits of the case, the Court will surely take into account the fact that the consumer price index (the indicator most relevant to this case) for the countries of Latin America taken as a whole increased by 721% in the five years from 1983 to 1988, that is, an average of 144% per annum. Without citing extreme cases of countries experiencing hyperinflation, Costa Rica, a country geographically close to Honduras, suffered an increase of 263% in its consumer price index over the last ten years. (Source: Report to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council CIES. OAS, September 1989). In Honduras, such increases have been much milder. Nevertheless, even at the relatively low growth of the consumer price index in Honduras, if the trust in question had been set up 18 years ago (in 1971) in the amount of L.562,500, that sum would today be the equivalent of L.147,126, or approximately a quarter of its original value, given the changes experienced in the consumer price index of Honduras. 19. The Commission asked the Court to admit its request in order that measures be taken to protect the purchasing power of the amounts (both principal and interest) involved in the trust to be set up on behalf of HECTOR RICARDO, NADIA WALESKA and HERLING LIZZETT VELASQUEZ GUZMAN by tying that portion of the damages to an index that will maintain its purchasing power. This should be done not only for each of the payments of interest