- 77 - operative paragraphs. In addition, as the Court has ordered on previous occasions,322 this judgment must be published integrally, for at least one year, on an appropriate official web page, taking into account the characteristics of the publication that has been ordered. The Court establishes a time frame of six and two months as of notification of this judgment for the publications in the newspapers and on the Internet, respectively. b) Public acknowledgment of international responsibility 221. Both the Commission and the representatives asked that the Court “order an act to make public reparation in which the State acknowledges its international responsibility for the extrajudicial execution of Senator Manuel Cepeda Vargas and the subsequent obstruction of justice, and apologizes for the facts to his next of kin.” Furthermore, the representatives asked that, during this act, the State acknowledge its responsibility by both act and omission, restore the memory of the victim, acknowledge that this execution constituted a crime against humanity and apologize to the victim’s next of kin and the members of his political party. They considered it essential that the act be held during a plenary session of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, on the anniversary of the Senator’s murder, in the presence of the members of the two chambers, the victim’s next of kin, and a representative of the Patriotic Union, and that the President of the Republic, as the person responsible for making the official acknowledgement, address those present; also, that the act be broadcast in direct by the State radio stations and television channels and covered by the mass media. 222. For its part, the State indicated that, notwithstanding the public acknowledgement of State responsibility made during the public hearing held in this case (supra para. 14), it accepted the measure of reparation and would organize a “public act [in Colombia] to acknowledge the international responsibility of the Colombian State, by act and omission, in the murder of Senator Manuel Cepeda Vargas and to apologize publicly to his next of kin as a form of reparation.” Nevertheless, it did not specify the exact conditions or ways in which such act would take place, and did not accept those requested by the Commission and the representatives. The Court observes that the acknowledgement of responsibility made during the hearing is an act of satisfaction and has taken note of the acknowledgement made by the State. 223. On previous occasions, the Court has assessed favorably those acts that result in the recovery of the victims’ memory, the recognition of their dignity, and the consolation of their heirs.323 The Court considers it appropriate that the State organize a public act of acknowledgement of international responsibility in Colombia to ensure that the acknowledgement of international responsibility made before the Court achieves its full effects as a measure of satisfaction and guarantee of non-repetition of the serious human rights violations that have been declared. During this act reference must be made to: (a) the facts relating to the execution of Senator Manuel Cepeda Vargas, committed in the context of generalized violence against members of the UP, 322 Cf. Serrano Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of March 1, 2005. Series C No. 120, para. 195; Case of the Dos Erres Massacre v. Guatemala, supra note 57, para. 256, and Case of Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico, supra note 24, para. 350. 323 Cf. Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre v. Colombia, supra note 136, para. 254; Case of the Miguel Castro Castro Prison v. Peru, supra note 56, para. 430; Case of Vargas Areco v. Paraguay, supra note 209, para. 149, and Case of Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico, supra note 24, para. 352.

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