Palace of Justice siege

Palace of Justice siege
	Part of Colombian armed conflict
	; A Colombian Police Bell 212 deploying troops on the roof of the Palace of Justice during the siege
Date	6–7 November 1985
Location	Palace of Justice, Bogotá, Colombia
Result	Colombian government victory. ; Destruction of the building. Creation of the AFEUR unit.;
Belligerents
Colombian government	M19
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Jesús Armando Arias Cabrales; Col. Alfonso Plazas	Luis Otero Cifuentes †
Units involved
Colombian Army	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

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]

^ ^a ^b "27 Hours That Shook Bogota – The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15.
^ de 2020, 6 de Noviembre (6 November 2020). "Toma del Palacio de Justicia: 35 años después se sigue pidiendo justicia". infobae.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Livingstone, Grace (2004). Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy, and War. Rutgers University Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-8135-3443-7.
^ Pearce, Jenny (1 May 1990). Colombia:Inside the Labyrinth. Latin America Bureau. p. 181. ISBN 0-906156-44-0.
^ Silva, Angelica Higuera. "Remember, Remember the 6 and 7 of November: Colombia 1985 Siege of the Palace of Justice" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[washingtonpost.com-1] "27 Hours That Shook Bogota – The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15.

[2] 2020, 6 de Noviembre (6 November 2020). "Toma del Palacio de Justicia: 35 años después se sigue pidiendo justicia". infobae.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[dead1-3] Livingstone, Grace (2004). Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy, and War. Rutgers University Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-8135-3443-7.

[dead2-4] Pearce, Jenny (1 May 1990). Colombia:Inside the Labyrinth. Latin America Bureau. p. 181. ISBN 0-906156-44-0.

[5] Silva, Angelica Higuera. "Remember, Remember the 6 and 7 of November: Colombia 1985 Siege of the Palace of Justice" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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