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Father of Injured Student Accuses Colombia of “State Terrorism”

HeadlineMar 12, 2008

In Ecuador, the family of a Mexican student seriously wounded in last week’s cross-border attack on FARC rebels is calling for legal action against the Colombian government. The parents of Lucia Morett say their daughter was visiting the FARC camp for a research paper when Colombia attacked. She is currently recovering from deep shrapnel wounds. Lucia Morett’s father, Jose Luis Morett, called the strike an act of state terrorism.

Jose Luis Morett: “They have given her the most humane, warm and comforting attention possible, but keeping in mind that she is the victim of a terribly painful act, an act of state terrorism, to attack another nation, to attack civilians without any declaration of war, to come over and massacre people. Every human being deserves the same respect as a group of civilian students like the kids from UNAM that came with my daughter were.”

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