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members; and orders a report by the NCLR to be made to the President
of Suriname every three months; and
ii. Presidential Order No. PB 07/2007, dated April 2007, amending the
Order PB 02/2006 by extending the term of the Commission from
January 5, 2007 until December 3, 2007; and
f) regarding the safety of the community members who will decide to return to
the Moiwana village, the State has taken the following measures:
i. in the neighboring villages of Moengo and Albina, there are existing
Police Departments. The Department in Moengo is being renovated;
ii. new accomodations are being built, and old accomodations are being
renovated, for police officers in these villages; and
iii. the Institute of Neighborhood Police Officers was established in 2005.
Once the Moiwana village is built, a Neighborhood Police Officer will be
installed to help guarantee the safety of the community members.
11.
The brief dated July 13, 2007, by which the Representatives submitted their
observations on the State’s second report and declared, inter alia, that:
a) there has been little demonstrable progress made since the last report
submitted by the State;
b) however, the victims have received the compensation ordered by the Court and
the award of costs have been disbursed and received;
c) the State’s second report did not provide any information about the Court’s
order to “immediately carry out an effective investigation and judicial process”;
d) the victims have expressed concern about remarks made by a former leader of
the army, in a public meeting on July 9, 2007, in which he stated, among
others, that “he still has contact with the Army, more so even than the present
Minister of Defence; that it is unacceptable that the Army is being blamed for
the Moiwana massacre; that there will be big problems if the government
continues to handle the case the way it has to date; and that a full investigation
of the massacre must be conducted and should have been conducted
previously”. The fact that such statements are being made in public meetings
and then reported in the press, while the State has done nothing to comply with
the Court’s order to investigate and initiate a judicial process, is deeply
disturbing to the victims and greatly aggravates their feelings of fear and
anxiety;
e) regarding the safe return of the victims, statements about the construction and
renovation of police stations in the neighbourhood of Moiwana village are “of
little comfort (and little practical effect) when the very persons who ordered and
later admitted responsibility for the attack on their village continue to hold high
political office and make public statements such as those reported above”;
f) the State has done nothing to locate and return the remains of those persons
killed on November 19, 1986, nor has it consulted with the victims in this
respect;
g) regarding the development fund, the Representatives observe that the
functioning of the SFOMG is not even mentioned in the State’s second report.
The State has yet to explain where the SFOMG will obtain fund to implement
activities in order to obtain the “reimbursement per project” referred to in the
State’s first report;
h) the Representatives indicate that the sum of US$ 327,000.00 has been
transferred to the SFOMG to-date, out of the total of US$ 1,200,000.00 ordered
by the Court;
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