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In addition, they asked the Court to require the State to publish the proven facts and the
operative paragraphs of its judgment in a bulletin of the Salvadoran Armed Forces. The
State accepted to publish the pertinent parts of the judgment to be delivered by the Court in
a newspaper with national circulation and in the country’s official gazette, in accordance with
the parameters followed in the case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters.
203. The Court considers, as it has in other cases,297 that, within six months of notification
of this judgment, the State must publish:
a) The official summary of this judgment prepared by the Court, once, in the
Official Gazette;
a) The official summary of this judgment prepared by the Court, once, in a national
newspaper with wide circulation, and
c) The whole of this judgment, for one year, on an official web site.
204. Finally, taking into account the representatives’ request, the Court finds it
appropriate to order the State to publish, once, the official summary of the judgment
prepared by the Court in an internal bulletin of the Armed Forces of El Salvador, within the
time frame indicated above.
b)
Act of public acknowledgment of international responsibility
205. Both the Commission and the representatives asked the Court to order the State to
carry out a public act acknowledging international responsibility. The representatives
specified that it must be a public ceremony presided by the President of the Republic and
with the presence of senior officials of the Armed Forces of El Salvador, the Public
Prosecution Service, the Judiciary and the National Assembly, in which the State guarantees
the presence of the victims’ next of kin and of Gregoria Herminia Contreras, assumes all the
traveling expenses, and agrees on the date and place of the act with the victims, their next
of kin and their representatives. They also asked that the act be “transmitted by the
principle national media” and that “a recording of the act be given to each of the victims’
families.” The State indicated that, on January 16, 2010, the President of the Republic had
effected an act of reparation and apologized to all the victims of the human rights violations
that took place in the context of El Salvador’s internal armed conflict, who include the
victims of the forced disappearance of children, and expressed his willingness to effect a
specific act of reparation and acknowledgment of responsibility in this case.
206. The Court assesses positively the initiative to acknowledge responsibility executed by
the State at the domestic level with regard to “all the victims of human rights violations that
took place in the context of the Salvadoran internal armed conflict.” However, as it has in
other cases,298 the Court considers that the State must carry out a public act of
acknowledgment of international responsibility in relation to the facts of the instant case,
referring to the violations established in this judgment. The act must be effected by means
of a public ceremony in the presence of senior State officials and the victims in this case.
The State must reach agreement with the victims or their representatives on the means of
complying with the public act of acknowledgment, as well as the specific details such as the
297
Cf. Case of Barrios Altos, supra note 291, operative paragraph 5(d); Case of Mejía Idrovo, supra note 19,
para. 141, and Case of Chocrón Chocrón, supra note 19, para. 158.
298
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series C
No. 88, para. 81; Case of Gelman, supra note 16, para. 266, and Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do
Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 277.
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