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b. To that end, it empowered the Committee
to examine: u methods and procedures to prevent
any activities coming from abroad and intended to
overthrow legally constituted government or to
create cases of intervention or aggression contem-
plated in instruments such as the Convention on
the Duties and Rights of States in case of Civil
Strife-and its Protocol as WELL we add; q the
relation between the violations of human rights or
lack OF exercise of representative democracy, on
the one hand, and the political tensions which af
feet the peace of the Hemisphere, on the other
hand
g The immediate undertaking of thorough
study of the above mentioned questions.
d. The new powers-paragraph 4-were temp
orary in nature, extending until the conclusion of
the XI 1nter-American Conference.
Upon examining the Report of the 1nter-Amer-
lean Peace Committee, the members of the Study
Panel find that this document does not correspond
to the ends and competence of the Committee for
the following reasons:
a. 1t has limited the conflict, that is, the poll
tical tensions, to the Dominican Republic in vio-
latlon OF the broader mission embodied In ReSolu-
ton Nv which ordered the Committee to study the
situation of international tensions in the Carib-
bean area in it's general and multiple aspects
b. In submitting its June 6, 1860 Report, it has
acted as Court of Justice by ascribing response
bilities leveling charges and pronouncing absolu-
lions. The Committees purpose which is to invest
gate for the purpose of bringing about Cancellation
and pacification in accordance with the delicate
and complex task which an assignment of this ma
ture regarding sovereign powers entails, has been
perverted.
g In dealing with case directly connected
with the general situation of the political tensions
obtaining in the Caribbean area and in view of the
intense SUFFICIENTLY of that situation the Commit
tee should have borne in mind that circumstance
in giving out its Report, inasmuch as the terms in
which it has been conceived lend themselves to pro-
ducing affects that contrary to the conciatory
aim that constitutes the Committees raison detre.
d. The Committee has failed to exercise perm
anent vigilance to bring about the disappearance
of the above mentioned tensions, which in this
case creates situation of conflict.
On the other hand, and with reference to the
new powers Professionally granted to the Commit
tee, it has exceeded its authority also, inaSmuch
as: a. it has exercised improperly powers which
were expressly denied to the Inter American Com
mittee on Human Rights when the Council of the
Organization of American States discussed the
Statutes it had drafted for the latter Committee
to function; b. in marked manner, it has not
afforded the methods and procedures recommended
in order to foresta subversive activities intended
to overthrow the Government of the Dominican
Republic ignoring, ineXplicably, the Investigations
conducted by its own Subcommittee which visited
Ciudad Trulo for the purpose of investigating the
invaSions of ConStanza, Maimon and Estero
Hondo; g it abStained from pointing to the other
countries involved in the causes of the tension in
the Caribbean area, to condemn only the Domini-
can Republic, thereby overreaching its authority
as it made singular condemnation instead of
generaliZed pronouncement in pursuit of concilia-
ton.
In addition to the foregoing, the members of
the Study Panel regard as substantive objection
to the Report of the Inter-American Peace Com
mittee-and, at that, one having general charac-
ter-the unwarranted use that body made of secret
evidence that was not subjected either to debate
or to examination by the Dominican Republic,
dropping the full weight of its accusation upon
the latter with an obvious disregard for the right
of defense and the judicial guarantee that should
have been the rule in said action wherein the
Dominican Republic has been condemned without
knowledge and without being afforded an oppor-
tunity to challenge evidence with which it still
remains unacquainted.
For all these reasons the members of the Study
Panel invited by the Dominican Republics Secre-
tariat of State for Foreign Relations and by the
University of Santo Domingo