-10- 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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