-9place regarding the facts, [which] the Commission “did not […] take into account when it brought the case before the Court”; e) the State fulfilled all the requirements and parameters established by the Court with regard to the procedural condition regarding exhaustion of domestic remedies. The Commission’s response to this Preliminary Objection asserts that it is merely a disagreement regarding the way in which Article 46 of the Convention was interpreted; f) when the case was submitted to the Court there was already a June 18, 2003 judgment that sentenced the mastermind of the massacre to 40 years in prison and three members of the army to 30 to 40 years in prison; and on September 30, 2003 the main perpetrator of the massacre was sentenced to 40 years in prison; g) domestic remedies are comprehensive in nature and they satisfy the need for access to justice, not only regarding criminal matters, but also with regard to reparations; h) domestic justice has operated in this in mind the complexity of the case, next of kin, and the possibility administrative law jurisdiction to seek i) case within a reasonable term, bearing the domestic remedies, actions by the of the alleged victims resorting to the respective compensation; and if the Court deems that the Preliminary Objection is in order, the Court would lose competence to decide on the compensations, but the State would be able to make these reparations in accordance with its domestic legislation. IV COMPETENCE 24. The Court is competent, pursuant to Article 62(3) of the Convention, to hear the instant case, in view of the fact that Colombia has been a State Party to the American Convention since July 31, 1973, and it acknowledged the adjudicatory jurisdiction of the Court on June 21, 1985. V PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY 25. The State has withdrawn the first Preliminary Objection regarding “inappropriate application of Articles 50 and 51 of the American Convention” and has ratified its second Preliminary Objection regarding non-exhaustion of domestic remedies. 26. The State has, in turn, acknowledged its international responsibility for the abridgment of Articles 4(1), 5(1), 5(2), 7(1) and 7(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights, in connection with the facts mentioned in section B of Chapter VI of the application filed by the Commission.