The Jamundí Massacre ( es, 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
Jamundí is a town and municipality in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Jamundí is located south of Cali (the capital of the department) in the west riverside of the Cauca River The average temperature is 23° Celsius.
Histo ...
,
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 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...
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
Diego León Montoya Sánchez (born January 11, 1958/1961), also known as Don Diego, is a Colombian former crime boss and leader of the Norte del Valle Cartel, Norte del Valle drug cartel. On October 25, 2002, Montoya was listed as a Specially Des ...
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. According to the Grupo de Memoria Histórica, there were 2505 massacres in Colombia between 1973 and 2008. The Colombian government defines "massacre" as the killing of 4 or more people in ...
References
Mass murder in 2005
Massacres in Colombia
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