“Colombia has moved on… Colombia has forgotten the Palace of Justice siege.”
Ana Carrigan — “The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy”
November 6 2020 — The Palace of Justice siege (Toma del Palacio de Justicia in Spanish) was a 1985 attack against the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the M-19 Marxist 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. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
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Hours later, after a military raid, the incident left almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
The military’s role in the siege has been described as a holocaust and massacre by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
M19’s Palace of Justice Siege — November 6 1985
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Palace of Justice siege — Wikipedia
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