B) Claims for reparation of moral prejudice" 1) The Applicants, natural persons 32. In their Brief on Reparations, the Applicants, natural persons, beneficiaries of Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiéma alias Ablassé, namely: the Ernest Zongo, and Blaise Ilboudo, are claiming reparation essentially on account of the “pain, physical and emotional suffering and trauma” suffered by them “throughout the duration of the lengthy legal procedure, which is entirely ascribable 33. They pointed out that to Burkinabé authorities.” “to wait for nearly eight years for a hypothetical notification from the court to be able to provide the Judge with information likely to help him follow a line of enquiry to track down the perpetrators of the assassination of one's relatives”... “to wait endless hours in front of the chambers of counsel and/or investigating magistrates in search of news about these persons" ... "and spend sleepless nights ‘brooding over’ the difficulties encountered on a daily basis in the quest for the truth” have been, for the beneficiaries, “ordeals to which it is almost impossible to ‘attach’ a cost”. 34. They further stated that even if the Judgment of 28 March 2014 may in itself be a form of reparation, “the length of the judicial proceedings, the suffering and persecutory treatment that they caused, the changes that they brought about beneficiaries and, above all, the situation of impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of the assassination of Norbert Zongo and his companions, - all justify compensation, based on the principle of equity...which could the feeling of a fair reparation in the life of the the grant of monetary give them [the Applicants] for the prejudice suffered”. 35. They underscored in this regard that they had categorically refused the social welfare cover in the form of feeding, healthcare and education as well as a special allowance offered by the Respondent State in 1999, because they did not want “any support from the State as long as the perpetrators of the assassination had not been brought to book before Burkinabé courts. " The Applicants are referring to “non-pecuniary damages”, whereas in reality, the issue is one of application for “pecuniary” damages for “moral” prejudice. 12 eo /§ SS

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