| Jamundí Massacre | |
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| Location |
Jamundí, Valle del Cauca Colombia |
| Date | May 21–22, 2005 (UTC -5) |
| Target | Colombian National Police |
Attack type | shooting, mass murder, massacre |
| Weapons | small arms |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Perpetrators | Colombian National Army |
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The Jamundí Massacre (Spanish language: Masacre de Jamundí
) was a massacre perpetrated by a Colombian National Army elite unit known as the High Mountain Battalion ("Batallón de Alta Montaña") which was then commanded by Colonel Byron Carvajal against an elite Colombian National Police counter-narcotics unit on May 22, 2006 in the municipality of Jamundí, Department of Valle del Cauca.
Indictments[]
On February 18, 2008 a civil judge in Cali condemned 15 soldiers for the massacre of ten policemen and a civilian.[1]
Initially the spokesman from the Army battalion referred to it as a friendly fire incident, confusing the anti-narcotics unit with an insurgent group. The case however, was investigated and resulted in the indictment of the soldiers for being at the service of drug cartels.[2] Colombian authorities suspected of Diego León Montoya Sánchez aka "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack.[3]
See also[]
- List of massacres in Colombia
References[]
- ↑ "El Tiempo: Hallan culpables a 15 militares por la masacre de 10 policías y un civil en Jamundí, Valle" (in es). http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/550366.asp. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ (Spanish) El Tiempo: La masacre de Jamundí
- ↑ "Revista Semana: ¿Quién dio la orden?" (in es). http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=95033. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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