Retired Colombian army colonel Guillermo Armando Gordillo confessed to the FiscalĂa (attorney general) his participation in the slaying of eight people, including three children, at the Peace Community of San JosĂ© de ApartadĂł on Feb. 21, 2005. The FiscalĂa said Col. Gordillo was in command of the BolĂvar Company, VĂ©lez Battalion, 17th Brigade, which was carrying out a counterinsurgency operation code-named “FĂ©nix” in the area. The massacre was carried out by a “joint command” of Col. Gordillo’s troops and paramilitaries, the FiscalĂa found. (Radio Caracol, Aug. 2; El Tiempo, Bogotá, Aug. 1)
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