Palace of Justice siege | |||||||
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Part of Colombian armed conflict | |||||||
![]() A Colombian Police Bell 212 deploying troops on the roof of the Palace of Justice during the siege | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
![]() ![]() ![]() | Ivan Marino Ospina Company | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~1000 2 squadrons of 4 EE-9 Cascavel |
35 3 vehicles | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
11 killed | 33 killed | ||||||
43 civilians killed 11 missing[2] |
The Palace of Justice siege was a 1985 attack on the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the leftist M-19 guerrilla group took over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá and held the Supreme Court hostage, intending to hold a trial against President Belisario Betancur. The guerrilla group called themselves the "Iván Marino Ospina Company" after an M-19 commander who had been killed by the Colombian military on 28 August 1985.[1] Hours later, after a military raid, the incident had left almost half of the twenty-five Supreme Court Justices dead.[3][4]
Luis Otero was in charge of directing the military aspects of the siege.[5]
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