Jamundí massacre

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.

Jamundí Massacre
Jamundí
Jamundí massacre (Colombia)
LocationJamundí, Valle del Cauca
Colombia
Date21-22 May 2005 (UTC -5)
TargetColombian National Police
Attack type
shooting, mass murder, massacre
Weaponssmall arms
Deaths11
Perpetrators Colombian Army

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]

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