Jamundí massacre
| Jamundí Massacre | |
|---|---|
  Jamundí Jamundí massacre (Colombia) | |
| Location | Jamundí, Valle del Cauca Colombia |
| Date | 21–22 May 2005 (UTC -5) |
| Target | Colombian National Police |
Attack type | shooting, mass murder, massacre |
| Weapons | small arms |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Perpetrators |  Colombian Army |
The Jamundí Massacre (Spanish: 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
[edit]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 Diego León Montoya Sánchez a.k.a. "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "El Tiempo: Hallan culpables a 15 militares por la masacre de 10 policías y un civil en Jamundí, Valle" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ (in Spanish) El Tiempo: La masacre de Jamundí[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Revista Semana: ¿Quién dio la orden?" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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