Weapons small arms Total number of deaths 11 | Dates 21 Feb 2005 – 22 Feb 2005 Perpetrator National Army of Colombia | |
Location Jamundí, Valle del Cauca
Colombia Target Colombian National Police Perpetrators Colombian National Army Attack types Shooting, Mass murder, 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.
Indictments
On February 18, 2008 a civil judge in Cali 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 of Diego León Montoya Sánchez aka "Don Diego" as the mastermind behind the attack.