[Marxism] MEXICO: Rights Groups Protest Killing of Students in FARC Camp By Diego Cevallos

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MEXICO: Rights Groups Protest Killing of Students in FARC Camp
By Diego  Cevallos
 
MEXICO CITY, Mar 21 (IPS) - Human rights groups in Mexico and Ecuador plan  
to take legal action against the Colombian government for what they call the  
"unjustified massacre" of four Mexican students in this monthâs attack on a 
FARC  guerrilla camp in Ecuador.
 
"It will be a lengthy process, carried out in different courts or  
international bodies, which could take from three to 10 years, but we have  
agreed to 
not allow this crime to go unpunished," AdriÃn RamÃrez, president of  the 
Mexican League for the Defence of Human Rights (LIMEDDHH), told IPS. 
 
In a cross-border aerial bombing and land incursion in Ecuador, the  
Colombian military killed 25 people in a FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of  
Colombia) camp on Mar. 1, including the rebel groupâs international spokesman 
 RaÃl 
Reyes. 
 
The attack ordered by the Colombian government, without notifying Quito,  
prompted Ecuador to sever ties with Colombia and triggered an acute political  
crisis in the Andean region, which was, however, resolved a few days later. 
 
Four Mexican university students were killed in the attack on the camp, and  
a fifth was wounded and is recovering in a military hospital in Quito. It is  
also possible that an Ecuadorean citizen was killed, although the body, which 
is  in the hands of Colombian authorities, has not yet been fully identified. 
 
Ecuadorean forensic experts have established that the four Mexican students  
were killed while they were sleeping, when the bombs fell on the camp in the 
wee  hours of the morning. 

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