million per father or mother.
In the same vein, the Court dismisses the claims for
reparation for moral prejudice submitted for the other persons listed by the Applicants ,
namely: step-mothers, uterine sisters and brothers, and step sisters and step brothers.
2) The Burkinab e Movemen t on Human and Peoples' Rights (MBDHP)
63. In their Brief on Reparations, the Applicants stated that the MBDHP
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claims from
Burkina Faso a token amount for the damage caused to it for its involvement in the search
for the truth ... "
64. In its Brief in Response, the Respondent State indicated that it "finds no inconvenience
with paying" the token 1 CFA F "for the moral damage" [the MBDHP] ''had suffered".
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65. The Court accepts, firstly, that a legal entity can suffer a moral prejudice . In the
instant case, this prejudice may have resulted from the frustrations experienced for years
by the MBDHP on account of the inconclusiveness of the action of apprehending ,
prosecuting and bringing to trial the assassins of Norbert Zongo and his companions.
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661n this regard, the Court is further of the opinion that in line with international practice ,
the findings in its aforementioned Judgment of 28 March 2014 regarding the violation of
the Charter by the Respondent State, already constitutes in itself a form of reparation for
the moral prejudice suffered by the MBDHP.
See on this score. ECHR: Comingersol/ S.A v Portugal, Judgment of 6 April 2000 para 35 : "In light of
its own case-law and that practice, the Court cannot (therefore) exclude the possibility that a commercial
company may be awarded pecuniary compensation for non-pecuniary damage", Idem: Part/ de Ia lfberta et
de Ia democrat1e (Ozdep) v Turkey, Judgment of 8 December 1999, paras 55 to 57
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1ACHR: El Amparo v. Venezuela (Reparations and Costs) , Judgement of 14 September 1996, para. 35,
IACHR, Ne1ra Alegria and Others v Peru (Reparations and Costs) Judgment of 19 September 1996, para
56; IACHR Montero-Artanguren and Others (Detention Center of Catia) v. Venezuela, Judgment of 5 July
2006, para. 131 : "Judgments, pursuant to repeated International precedents, constitute in and of
themselves a form of reparation"; ECHR' Varnava and Others v. Turkey, Judgment of 18 September 2009,
GC , para 224, ICJ· Umted Kingdom v Albania (Strait of Corfu), Merits, Judgment of 9 April 1949,
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Compendium 1949, p. 36.
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