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

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 aka "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack.^[3]

See also

• List of massacres in Colombia

References

1. "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]}
2. (in Spanish) El Tiempo: La masacre de Jamundí^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. "Revista Semana: ¿Quién dio la orden?" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2014.