Ex-colonel sentenced to 54 years over police massacre

AP
Friday, May 9, 2008

CALI, Colombia -- A judge on Wednesday gave a 54-year prison term to a cashiered army lieutenant col

onel who was convicted of ordering the massacre of 10 elite anti-drug police in an ambush on a lonely country road. Judge Edmundo Lopez also slapped near-maximum sentences of 52 years on the unit's second-in-command, and 50 years each on the other 13 soldiers convicted of participating in the May 22, 2006 slaughter.

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Ex-colonel sentenced to 54 years over police massacre

APFriday, May 9, 2008

AP
Friday, May 9, 2008