Military's role in massacre stuns Colombians, leader

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sun, Jun. 18, 2006email thisprint this
Military's role in massacre stuns Colombians, leader
By Joshua Goodman
Associated Press

JAMUNDI, Colombia - On a dirt road dotted with country homes near the western city of Cali, three trucks carrying an elite squad of anti-narcotics police pulled up to the gates of a psychiatric center for a planned raid about an hour before dusk.

Within minutes, all 10 officers in the U.S.-trained unit were dead in a ferocious attack that stunned Colombians and severely embarrassed President Álvaro Uribe Vélez just as he was savoring a crushing re-election victory.

The killers allegedly were no typical outlaws. The gunmen firing from roadside ditches and from behind bushes were a platoon of 28 soldiers who unleashed a barrage of some 150 bullets and seven grenades, according to a ballistics investigator.
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``This was not a mistake, it was a crime -- a deliberate, criminal decision,'' chief federal prosecutor-general Mario Iguarán told a shocked nation June 1. ``The army was doing the bidding of drug traffickers.
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The allegation of a premeditated massacre follows findings by the United Nations and human rights groups that Colombia's military is behind a recent wave of disappearances and killings of unarmed civilians.
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[rman]

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