8 international human rights courts, which enjoy ample authority, when determining the international responsibility of a State for the violation of human rights, to assess the evidence submitted to them concerning the pertinent facts, in accordance with the rules of logic and based on experience. 33. Based on the above, the Court will now examine and assess the body of evidence in the instant case within the legal framework in hand. In doing so, the Court will follow the rules of reasonable credit and weight analysis, within the applicable legal framework. A) DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE 34. The documentary evidence submitted by the Commission, the representatives and the State includes witness statements and written expert opinions sworn before a notary public in accordance with the Order of the President of December 21, 2005 (supra para. 18). Said witness statements and expert opinions are summarized as follows: a. Statement by Mr. Carlos Marecos-Aponte, alleged victim and leader of the Sawhoyamaxa Community He has been the leader of the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community for more than fifteen years. Like his parents and grandparents, he is a “criollo, born and raised in the area claimed” by the Community. The settlements “Santa Elisa— “to which he belongs— and “KM. 16” are the Community's most populated ones, and have been living on a roadside for more than eight years. Other members of the Community are living in several other estates in the surrounding area, such as: Ledesma, Maroma, Naranjito, Diana, San Felipe, Loma Porá and Santa Elisa Bray. The members of the Sawhoyamaxa Community “are not by the road because they like to, but because they are near the area they are claiming,” which they cannot “enter without permission,” as “they say those lands are private property.” People who are now living in the “Santa Elisa” village come from various estates, mainly Maroma, Ledesma, Naranjito and Loma Porá. On these estates, "families [...] were spread all over, without a safe place to live." “The conflict over the lands has been going on ever since [he] can remember; [they] used to live in other people's estates as Paraguayan workers, but [they] felt [they] needed to live on [their] own land [and] have an education.” Likewise, he stated that the members of his Community have always had problems as regards to documentation, for example, some members of the Community have never had any kind of identification. Generally, members of the Community have to go to Asunción to apply for a certificate of birth first and then an identity card, but owing to the high cost of transportation, it is not easy for them to travel. Deaths are not recorded either; the witness recalls that formerly the Anglican Church used to “give [them] a little piece of paper documenting the demise, but it was of no legal value.” To start claiming for their lands, the members of the Community “would gather and talk about how their ancestors used to live, and compared their ancestors’ way of life with their own reality.” They realized they were being displaced, and that many of 5 Cf. Case of Acevedo-Jaramillo et al., supra note 3, para. 185; Case of López-Alvarez, supra note 3, para. 37; and Case of Pueblo Bello Massacre, supra note 3, para 63.