6 20. If the Court had concluded that, in this case, the State was responsible for the torture inflicted on the victims, it would have followed the trend of the other international supervisory bodies, mentioned above, which have been establishing a tendency to attribute State responsibility for acts of torture committed by non-State agents. I consider that this would have been an important development and provided clarification on an issue regarding which the Court should certainly continue to occupy itself. Pablo Saavedra Alessandri Secretary Cecilia Medina Quiroga Judge