Inter-American Court of Human Rights' reparation judgments ...

60 Revista IIDH[Vol. 49is a lack of effective compliance of the Court’s judgments. Furthermore,until now, there is no case where the disappeared victim’s remains havebeen returned to their families. 72After a revision and analysis of the compliance resolutions, it is possibleto conclude that the effectiveness and compliance are not the same in allkinds of reparations. For instance, the most successful are the monetary,press publications and symbolic reparations. On the other hand, the lesssuccessful are perpetrator’s investigations and sanctions and the locationof disappeared people or their remains.Reparations, as restitution, compensation and rehabilitation, may bemore easily accepted by the State, but not without its problems. Restitutionmay not only be feasible in situations of epidemic violence. Rehabilitationis probably the most acceptable aspect of reparations, medical andpsychosocial rehabilitation is probably within the financial and moralcompass of most countries and could probably be done. 73Liliana Ortega, Executive Director of COFAVIC (Venezuela), declaredthat97% of investigations to identify, judge and sanction in the perpetrators ofthe Caracazo Case vs. Venezuela are in their preliminary phase; for thatreason, nobody has been condemned…there are no measures no guaranteethe repetition of the facts… the impunity is evident [and she insisted in]the necessity of an official politics of human rights. 74An investigation made by Paz Rojas 75 in Latin America and SouthAfrica shows that all the people interviewed agreed in saying that mostof the reparatory measures did not take place and when the violationhappened, it was only in the economic scope and social welfare. Both of72 Saavedra, P., “La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, las reparacionesordenadas y el acatamiento de los Estados”... (Author’s translation.)73 Hamber, B., and Richard Wilson, “Symbolic closure through memory,reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies”, Traumatic Stress inSouth Africa conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence andReconciliation in association with the African Society for Traumatic StressStudies at the Parktonian Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1999.74 March 2006, from .75 Rojas, P., “La reparación y sus efectos”, in: ECAP, Psicología social yviolencia política. Siglo XXI, Guatemala, 2003.