44 competent institutions, must exhaust the lines of investigations with respect to the execution of Mr. Escué Zapata (supra para. 63 and 109) in order to establish the truth of the facts. The State must ensure that the victim’s relatives have full access and capacity to act in all the stages and instances of said investigations and proceedings, in accordance with the domestic law and the rules of the American Convention. The results of such proceedings must be disclosed to the public by the State, so that the Colombian society and the Paez Indigenous Community in particular, can learn what really happened in the present case. b) Communal development fund in memory of Germán Escué Zapata 167. The Commission requested the Court to order, as a satisfaction measure, “the designation of a street, a park or school of Jambaló Community after Germán Escué Zapata." Moreover, the representatives of the victim and his relatives suggested that "a monument is a way of reparation for the relatives of Germán Escué [Zapata] and the members of the Community to which he belonged, inasmuch as it sends a message to the society suggesting a disapproval of the facts and it also implies the recovery of the memory of an indigenous leader to praise with nostalgia, as a victim of human rights violations.” The State undertook to “place a slab in the place to be determined, with the consent of the victim's relatives." 168. The Court positively values the State’s will to place a slab in memory of the facts and the victim; notwithstanding, it suggests that the homage to the memory of Mr. Escué Zapata must be done through beneficial works for the benefit of the Community in which he exercised a kind of leadership. To that end, the Court considers the State must allocate, within a period of one year as from the service of notice of this Judgment, the amount of US$ 40,000.00 (forty thousand United States dollars) to a fund named after Germán Escué Zapata, so that the Community can invest it in collective interests' service or works for its own benefit, in accordance with their consultations, decisions, usages, customs and traditions, independently of the public works put aside in the national budget for that region. c) Measures to guarantee the higher education of Myriam Zapata Escué 169. The representatives highlighted the negative effects that the facts of the present case caused to the victim's daughter, who, with the death of his father, "lost many opportunities that could have had in her life." Considering the above, they requested a scholarship for higher studies as “reparation for the life project and a restitution of what Myriam could have.” The State confirmed its will to comply with the granting of an university scholarship for the victim’s daughter “in a well-known academic center chosen by common consent between the victim and the State.” 170. The Court acknowledges the suffering of the victim’s daughter and the difficulties that she has to overcome along her life in order to finish her primary and secondary studies; difficulties that are still evident in the stage where she shows her will and desire to study an university career.139 Therefore and considering the parties’ petitions, the State must grant to Myriam Zapata Escué a scholarship for university studies in a Colombian public university chosen by common consent between her and the State. The scholarship must cover all the expenses until the completion of the course of studies, the academic material as well as the lodging and subsistence. The State must, also, bear the expenses of the transportation from 139 Cf. Statement rendered by Myriam Zapata Escué in the public hearing held before the Court on January 29 and 30, 2007.

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