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c)
Public act of acknowledgment of responsibility
198. In order for the assent made by the State and that established by this
Tribunal to have their complete effects of reparation, as well as for it to act as a
guarantee of non-repetition, the Court considers that the State must hold a public
act of acknowledgment of its international responsibility, for the illegal arrest,
torture, and extrajudicial killing of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis
Betancourth Vásquez, Diomedes Obed García Sánchez, and Orlando Álvarez Ríos and
for the impunity that prevails in the case. This act must take place within a period of
six months as of the notification of the present Judgment.
d)
Street or plaza and plaque
199. The State must name, within a one-year period as of the notification of the
present Judgment, a street or a plaza, in the city of Tegucigalpa, in memory of Marco
Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Diomedes Obed García
Sánchez, and Orlando Álvarez Ríos. The State must place a plaque on said street or
plaza with the names of the mentioned four victims.
e)
Establishment of training programs in human rights
200. This Court considers that the State must establish, within a reasonable period
of time, a program for the formation and training of police and judicial personnel as
well as personnel of the Public Prosecutors’ Office and of the penitentiary. That
training should deal with the special protection that must be offered by the State to
children and youngsters, the principle of equality and non-discrimination, and the
principle and norms for the protection of human rights, related to the application of
international standards for the arrest of people, respect for their rights and judicial
guarantees, the treatment that they must receive, their detention conditions,
treatment, and medical control, the right to have an attorney, to receive visits, and
that minors and adults, as well as those being processed and those already
convicted, be located in different installations. The design and implementation of the
training program must include the assignment of specific resources to achieve its
purposes.
f)
National campaign for sensitization with regard to children and youngsters in
risky situations
201. It was established in the present case that the State tends to identify the
children and youngsters in situations of risk with the increase of criminality. In
reason of this, the State must carry out, within a reasonable period of time, a
campaign with the purpose of creating awareness in the Honduran society regarding
the importance of the protection of children and youngsters, inform it of the specific
duties for their protection that correspond to the family, society, and the State, and
make the population see that children and youngsters in situations of social risk are
not identified with delinquency (supra para. 79(1)).
202. Within the framework of this campaign, the State must issue, within a oneyear period as of the date of the notification of the present Judgment, a postal stamp
allusive to the protection due by the State and society to children and youngsters in
risky situations, in order to prevent them from becoming victims of violence.