Jamundí Massacre
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The Jamundí Massacre () was a
massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...
perpetrated by a
Colombian National Army The National Army of Colombia () is the land warfare service branch of the Military Forces of Colombia. With over 361,420 active personnel as of 2020, it is the largest and oldest service branch in Colombia, and is the second largest army in the ...
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 Jamundí is a town and municipality in the Departments of Colombia, Department of Valle del Cauca Department, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Jamundí is located south of Cali (the capital of the department) in the west riverside of the Cauca River ...
, Department of Valle del Cauca.


Indictments

On February 18, 2008 a civil judge in
Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...
condemned 15 soldiers for the massacre of ten policemen and a civilian. 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. Colombian authorities suspected Diego León Montoya Sánchez aka "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack.


See also

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List of massacres in Colombia The following is a list of notable massacres in Colombia. Most documented massacres have been a part of the wider Colombian conflict (1964-present day). According to the ''Grupo de Memoria Histórica'' (), there were 2,505 massacres in Colombia ...


References

Massacres in 2005 Massacres of the Colombian conflict 21st-century mass murder in Colombia 2000s mass shootings in South America 2005 mass shootings Deaths by firearm in Colombia Valle del Cauca Department May 2005 crimes in South America May 2005 in South America 2005 murders in Colombia {{Colombia-hist-stub