 On 27 September 1989, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights looked into the matter, declared that this constituted a very serious violation of the Right to Life, recommended that the Government of Suriname investigate the matter, and that the relatives of the victims are entitled to fair compensation.The IACHR identified 15 cases of deaths, four disappearances and one was unclear.Six of the cases were children, and three were women of which one was raped before she was killed.