Legarda
The Indian Edwin, died after the vehicle he was riding received 15 shots, the December 16, 2008
Legarda Indigenous leader Edwin was killed in 2008 when Vehicle was shot. The soldiers involved in the case of any guilt fought during these two years, arguing that the original ignored an order of detention, while driving, so they opened fire on the car.
The Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Popayan Cauca department, southwestern Colombia, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing six soldiers in 2008 the Indian leader Edwin Vasquez Legarda.
The military, already in retirement, were found guilty of aggravated murder charges.
The ruling means the Vivas Ramirez Alexis Sargent, third after Alonso Osorio Javier Diaz and professional soldiers Lisandro Caicedo Obando, Javier Francisco Belalcázar Trochez Numar Muitrón Armida Weimar Lemech Cabezas and William Hurt.
court conviction also requires officials to pay a fine of 2 000 666 current legal minimum wage of 515 pesos (Just over $ 286).
The ruling also disabled the military for 20 years for public office. Measures to the Second Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Popayan, the defense appealed the verdict.
The six implicated in the killing were detained at the San Isidro jail in Popayan, prosecutors said.
Before this ruling, last June the same court had convicted Popayán the military. Later, a seventh officer was acquitted of the facts as reported section of the prosecution in the capital of Cauca.
Legarda was killed on December 16, 2008, when traveling in a van from the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) by road from the town of Inza to Popayan (southwest). His way to find his wife, Aida Quilcué indigenous leader.
The car he was riding the leader was found with 15 bullet wounds in their sides and two that went through the windshield.
In the aftermath, the military argued that the original defendants ignored an order of arrest issued by a catch, so they opened fire on the vehicle he was driving.
One day before the murder, the deceased wife, Aida Quilcué, had returned from Geneva where he attended meetings of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations Organization (UNO).
The CRIC has claimed that the target of the attack was Quilcué Aida, then minister over this organization and who had led two months before an indigenous protest that mobilized more than 40 000 Aboriginal people in the southwest of the country and to Bogota.
For his part, Colombian indigenous leader, Aida Quilcue has assured that the murder of her husband, Edwin Legarda, "is a state crime, the army killed him."
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