broadcast must be made on the first Sunday of the month on at least four occasions. The State
must previously advise the representatives, with at least two weeks’ notice, of the radio station
and the date and time of this broadcast. The State must comply with this measure within six
months of notification of this Judgment.
F.2 Another measure that was requested: public act to acknowledge the State’s
responsibility
314. The representatives requested that the State make an official, public apology for
violating the rights of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples and that, in public, it undertake that, in
future, such rights would be respected. The apology should be made in a formal ceremony,
organized and conducted with the full and effective participation of the freely chosen
representatives of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples. Also, all the members of the victims’
communities must be invited, and it must be broadcast in the media.
315.
Neither the Commission nor the State commented in this regard.
316. In this regard, the Court considers that the delivery of this Judgment and the reparations
ordered herein are sufficient and appropriate measure in this case; consequently, it does not find
it necessary to order the holding of a public ceremony to acknowledge responsibility.
G. Costs and expenses
317. The representatives indicated in their pleadings and motions brief that the State should
reimburse the costs and expenses incurred by the members of the peoples in prosecuting the
case before the Commission and the Court, as well as in the domestic sphere. To this end, they
indicated that the costs of VIDS and KLIM amounted to US$179,970.94 (one hundred and
seventy nine thousand nine hundred and seventy United States dollars and ninety-four cents),
and that the expenses of the Forest Peoples Programme, over the last 15 years, amount to
US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars). Additionally, in their final observations,
the representatives also requested the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by Forest
Peoples Programme owing to the public hearing in this case, which amounted to US$13,294.25
(thirteen thousand two hundred and ninety-four United States dollars and twenty-five cents).
Lastly, the representatives requested the payment of the expenditure that was incurred owing to
the on-site procedure, which amounted to US$4,847.40 (four thousand eight hundred and fortyseven United States dollars and forty cents.
318.
Neither the Commission nor the State commented in this regard.
319. The Court reiterates that, pursuant to its case law,345 costs and expenses are part of the
concept of reparation, because the actions taken by the victims to obtain justice, in both the
domestic and the international spheres, entail disbursements that should be compensated when
the international responsibility of the State has been declared in a judgment against it.
Regarding the reimbursement of expenses, it is for the Court to assess their scope prudently,
and this includes the expenses generated during the proceedings before the Inter-American
system, taking into account the circumstances of the specific case and the nature of the
international jurisdiction for the protection of human rights. This assessment may be made based
345
Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez. Reparations and Costs, supra, para. 42, and Case of the Garífuna Community of
Punta Piedra and its members, supra, para. 361.
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