Jamundí massacre

Infobox terrorist attack
title = Jamundí Massacre


caption =
location = Jamundí, Valle del Cauca Colombia
target = Colombian National Police
date = February 21-22, 2005
time =
timezone = UTC -5
type = shooting, mass murder,
fatalities = 11
injuries =
perps = Colombian National Army
weapons = small arms

The Jamundí Massacre ( _es. Masacre de Jamundí) was a 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. [ [http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/550366.asp es icon El Tiempo: Hallan culpables a 15 militares por la masacre de 10 policías y un civil en Jamundí, Valle] ]

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. [ [http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/editorial/2008-02-18/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3962055.html es icon El Tiempo: La masacre de Jamundí] ] Colombian authorities suspected of Diego León Montoya Sánchez aka "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack. [ [http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=95033 es icon Revista Semana: ¿Quién dio la orden?] ]

ee also

*List of massacres in Colombia

References