2008-05-08 00:27:08 -

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Colombia's military committed «crimes against humanity» when it allegedly shot three people in the back and killed a man with a blow to the head during a raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador's jungle, the Ecuadorean interior minister said Wednesday.
The forensic evidence showing that the three were shot in

the back is «undeniable,» Interior Minister Fernando Bustamante told the Gamavision television news program.
Lucia Morrett, a Mexican university student who survived the attack, said in April that she saw Colombian soldiers «shoot the wounded in the back.
Investigations also show that Ecuadorean citizen Franklin Aisalla died from a blow to the head while he was kneeling, Bustamante told local reporters.
In Bogota, General Freddy Padilla, head of the armed forces, denied that his soldiers committed any abuses during the operation.
«I'm convinced that my troops acted in accordance» with the law, Padilla told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo to discuss Quito's accusation.
Ecuador cut off diplomatic ties with Colombia after its soldiers attacked a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, on March 1, killing a top rebel leader, Aisalla and four Mexicans.

The government has asked Colombia for classified information to aid its investigation of the soldiers' alleged brutality, but Bustamante said he thought it «improbable» that Colombia would cooperate.
If it doesn't, there are «other means to hold those that conducted this operation responsible,» Bustamante said. Colombia «has the obligation to comply with international humanitarian law.