MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 100 university students demonstrated outside the Colombian Embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday to demand their government formally condemn Colombia's attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador, which apparently killed four Mexican students.
With chants of "Your death will be avenged!" students demanded Mexico break off diplomatic ties with Colombia, launch a criminal case against the South American nation for the students' disappearance and ask for compensation for their families.
The March 1 attack on the jungle camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, killed top rebel leader Raul Reyes and 24 others and briefly triggered a diplomatic crisis in which Ecuador and Venezuela sent troops to their Colombian borders. The missing students had attended a pro-FARC conference in Ecuador's capital before traveling to the camp.
Relatives tentatively identified the body of one of the students but are awaiting DNA and other tests on the badly decomposed remains found at the camp. The Ecuadorean government said the four were in the area, have not been heard from since and are feared dead.
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