Jamundí massacre
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| Jamundí Massacre | |
|---|---|
| Location | Jamundí, Antioquia Colombia |
| Date | February 21-22, 2005 (UTC -5) |
| Attack type | shooting, mass murder, massacre |
| Weapon(s) | small arms |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Perpetrator(s) | Colombian National 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.
[edit] 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]
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