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g)
Human rights education
409. Considering that the Ituango massacres were perpetrated by a paramilitary
group acting with the collaboration, tolerance and acquiescence of State agents, in
violation of peremptory norms of international law, the State must adopt measures
to provide training to members of its armed forces and its security agencies on the
principles and norms of human rights protection and international humanitarian law,
and on the limits to which they should be subjected. To this end, the State must
implement, within a reasonable time, permanent training programs on human rights
and international humanitarian law for the Colombian Armed Forces.
h)
Publication of the pertinent parts of this judgment
410. The Court considers that, as a measure of satisfaction, the State must publish
once, within six months of notification of this judgment, in the official gazette and in
another newspaper with national circulation, the chapter of the judgment entitled
Proven Facts, without the corresponding footnotes, and also the operative
paragraphs hereof.
XVII
COSTS AND EXPENSES
The Commission’s arguments
411. In relation to the payment of the costs and expenses incurred by the next of
kin of the victims to litigate this case in the domestic sphere and before the
Commission and the Court, and the honoraria of their legal representatives, the
Commission asked the Court to order the State to pay these expenses.
The representatives’ arguments
412. Regarding the payment of the costs and expenses incurred by the next of kin
of the victims to litigate this case in the domestic sphere and before the Commission
and the Court, and the honoraria of their legal representatives, the representatives
indicated that:
(a)
GIDH incurred expenses regarding the two cases, which were
subsequently joindered during the proceedings before the Commission. These
amount to US$11,074 for the measures taken at the international level and
US$4,553 for those taken at the domestic level before the administrative and
judicial authorities and for travel and interviews with the victims; for a total of
US$15,627;
(b)
The Comisión Colombiana de Juristas as co-petitioner in the case has
taken measures before the Inter-American Commission since 1999 in the case
of La Granja and since 2000 in the case of El Aro, and its expenses amount to
US$4,895.70 (four thousand eight hundred and ninety-five United States
dollars and seventy cents);
(c)
The expenses relating to processing the case before the Court,
consisting in the cost of the expert evidence and the transfer of the
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