ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS* OF JULY 4, 2006 BÁMACA VELÁSQUEZ V. GUATEMALA MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH JUDGMENT HAVING SEEN: 1. The judgment on merits delivered in this case by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) on November 25, 2000. 2. The judgment on reparations delivered in this case by the Inter-American Court on February 22, 2002. 3. The Order on compliance with judgment in this case issued by the Court on November 27, 2003, in which it declared, inter alia, that: […] the State ha[d] fully complied with operative paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of the judgment on reparations delivered by the Court on February 22, 2002, regarding damages. 4. The Order on compliance with judgment issued by the Court on March 3, 2005, in which it declared that: 1. [...] it will keep the procedure of monitoring compliance open with regard to the following aspects of this case that are pending: (a) The location of the remains of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, their exhumation in the presence of his widow and next of kin, and the return of the remains to them; (b) The investigation into the facts that gave rise to the violations of the American Convention on Human Rights and the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, the identification of those responsible, and the public divulgation of the results of this investigation; (c) The publication, once only, in the official gazette and in another newspaper with national circulation, of the chapter on proven facts and the operative paragraphs of the judgment on merits of November 25, 2000, and the organization of a public act to acknowledge responsibility concerning the facts of the case and to make amends to the victims; and (d) The adoption of the legislative and any other measures necessary to adapt the Guatemalan laws to international norms of human rights and humanitarian law, and to make those norms fully effective in the domestic sphere. * Judge Oliver Jackman informed the Court that, for reasons beyond his control, he would be unable to attend the deliberation of this Order.