must promote the necessary investigations to elucidate the facts, followed by the consequences
that the pertinent laws establish. 22
42.
Based on the above, within the framework of the instant provisional measures, and as it
has in other matters,23 the Court will not refer to the investigation of the facts or to the way in
which the State is conducting the investigation. In this regard, the Court reiterates that it will
no longer request the parties for information on this point. However, it insists that this does not
exempt the State from its obligation to investigate the reported facts that support these
measures, in the terms of Article 1(1) of the American Convention.
THEREFORE:
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
in exercise of the authority conferred upon it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on
Human Rights and Articles 27 and 31 of its Rules of Procedure,
DECIDES:
1.
To require the State to maintain and to adopt all necessary measures to protect
effectively the rights to life and to personal integrity of the following persons who work for the
Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala: Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso, Alma
Nydia Vásquez Almazán, Ana Dolores Arriola Carrillo, Beatriz Díaz Arreaga, Blanca Noemí
Barcenas Albizurez, Byron Estuardo García Méndez, Claudia Eugenia Rivera Fernández, Danny
A. Guzmán Castellanos, Dominga Alejandra Varel Sequeira, Edgar Herlindo Hernández Sánchez,
Edwin Giovanni Peruch Conós, Fredy Arnoldo Cumes Erazo, Gladis Amparo Martinez Ruiz,
Guillermo E. Vásquez Escobar, Heidy Hirua Quezada Arriaga, Jaime Enrique Ruiz Castellanos,
Jessika Marisela Osorio Galindo, Jorge Luis Romero de Paz, José Samuel Suasnavar Bolaños,
Juan Carlos Gatica Pérez, Juan Ramón Donado Vivar, Katia Victoria Orantes Poza, Leonel
Estuardo Paiz Diez, Marco Tulio Pérez Tánchez, Mario Bernabé Ramírez Alarcón, Mario Nájera,
Mynor Adán Silvestre Aroche, Nancy Yadira Valdez Vielman, Omar Bertoni Girón de León, Oscar
Ariel Ixpatá, Oswaldo Alexander García Pérez, Ramiro Edmundo Martínez Lemus, Raúl H. Archila
García, Renaldo Leonel Acevedo Álvarez, Sergio Oswaldo García López, Shirley Carola Chacón,
Silvia Beatriz Pellecer Montiel and Tomasa Cifuentes Cifuentes.
2.
To require the State to maintain and to adopt all necessary measures to protect
effectively the rights to life and to personal integrity of the next of kin of Fredy Armando
Peccerelli, Director of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, namely: Jeannette
Peccerelli, Ashley Corienne Peccerelli del Valle, Tristán Collin Peccerelli del Valle, Fredy Armando
Peccerelli Tenas, María del Carmen Monterroso de Peccerelli, Bianka Irina Peccerelli de Girón,
Gianni Paolo Peccerelli Monterroso and Luisa Fernanda Martínez de Peccerelli.
22
Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez. Provisional measures with regard to Honduras. Order of the Court of January
15, 1988, third considering paragraph; Matter of Eloisa Barrios et al. Provisional measures with regard to Venezuela.
Order of the Court of November 25, 2010, twenty-fourth considering paragraph, and Matter of Mery Naranjo et al.,
supra note 3, seventy-eighth considering paragraph.
23
Cf. Matter of the Children and Adolescents deprived of liberty in the FEBEM “Tatuapé Complex.” Provisional
measures with regard to Brazil. Order of the Court of July 3, 2007, seventh operative paragraph; Matter of the Peace
Community of San José de Apartadó. Provisional measures with regard to Colombia. Order of the Court of August 30,
2010, thirtieth considering paragraph, and Matter of Mery Naranjo et al., supra note 3, seventy-ninth considering
paragraph.
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