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Alfonso Cano sentenced in absentia to 40 years jail

by Cameron Sumpter August 4, 2010
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The FARC’s supreme leader, Alfonso Cano, was sentenced in absentia to 40 years in prison for the killing of five policemen and a civilian at an illegal roadblock in May 1995, reports El Espectador.

A Bogota criminal court sentenced Cano and five other members of the guerrilla group for the murder of six people and injury of three others at a roadblock between Bogota and Choachi in Cundinamarca between May 27 and 30, 1995.

Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, alias “Timochenko;” Luciano Marin Arango, alias “Ivan Marquez;” and Henry Castellanos Garzon, aka “Romana,” were also sentenced for aggravated homicide and personal injury.

In early July there were reports that the Colombian armed forces had killed Cano in a military raid in a FARC camp in Canon de Hermosas, western Colombia.

Following the arrest of guerrilla leader “Araceli” in the south-west Colombian Cauca department, authorities believed they were closing in on Cano, but Brigadier General Juan Pablo Rodriguez said that he did not want to raise false hopes.

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