5 brief on reparations and, as evidence to facilitate adjudication, it ordered the testimony of seven witnesses and six expert witnesses included in the first of said briefs (that of October, 2001) but not in the second (that of February, 2000) to be rendered. According to the decision of the Court, said testimony and expert testimony must be provided in writing, the content and their signatures being recognized by a notary public. Furthermore, the Court ordered that the testimony and expert reports be filed no later than March 6, 2002. 21. On February 4, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin requested a sixty-day extension to file the testimony and expert reports. On the following day the Secretariat, under instructions of the President, granted an extension until April 5, 2001 to submit the respective documents. 22. On April 2, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin requested a postponement of the filing of the reports of expert witnesses Jesús María Casal and Alicia Neuburger. That same day the Secretariat, under instructions by the President, granted an extension until the 11th of that same month and year. 23. On April 5, 8, 10 and 11, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin submitted the testimony, all in writing and rendered before a notary public, of the following forty persons: Miguelina La Rosa, Rafael Castellanos, Mery Marina Castillo, Ana Jacinta Garrido, Catalina Ramos de Guevara, Braulio Ramón Guía Laya, Xiomara Hernández, Rosa Margarita Mederos, Francisco Moncada, Ingrid Ortega Zapata, Hilda Rosa Páez, Toribia Ojeda, Ivonne Josefina Pirela Chacón, María Teresa Rivas, Juliana Quintana, Iris Medina, Dilia Mendoza de Ramos, Deisy Crespo, María Encarnación Salazar Campos, Fredez Binda García Hernández, María Neria Guillén Pereira, Olga María Álvarez, Carmen Rufina Cabriles, Rosa Julia Aldana Bastidas, Nelly Marcano, Nelly Freitez, María Casilda Valero Suárez, Haydée Mavilu Blanco García, Maritza Romero, Judith Borjas, Ybelice Altagracia Ramírez, Marisol Montenegro Cordero, Aura Rosa Liscano Betancourt, Petra Bello, Fernando Enrique Pérez, Juan Carlos Suárez Sánchez, Emileidys Ferrán Cedeño, Henry Eduardo Herrera Hurtado, Gregoria Matilde Castillo, and Noraima Sosa Ríos. They also submitted the reports of expert witnesses Magdalena López de Ibáñez, Jesús María Casal and Alicia B. Neuburger. On April 12, 2002 the Secretariat forwarded the respective documents to the Commission and to the State, and granted them until May 20 of that same year to submit their observations. 24. On April 29, 2002 the Commission requested an extension of the term to file the observations mentioned in the previous paragraph and the following day the Secretariat, under instructions by the President, granted the Commission and the State an extension until June 14 of that same year. 25. On June 5, 2002 the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin informed the Court of the reasons why the testimony of Gervasia Cartaya, Beatriz Imelda Gómez, Rosa Flores de Torres, and Franco José Marcos Villabobos was not submitted, and they filed several additional documents. 26. On June 12, 2002 the Commission submitted its observations on the testimony and the expert witness reports supplied by the representatives of the victims and of the next of kin. 27. In its June 18, 2002 brief the State filed its observations on the aforementioned testimony and expert witness reports. Previously, in its brief of the