Word: armero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen. Three months after that, Sangre Negra halted a bus, lined up 17 passengers, slaughtered them all. He kidnaped children, carried off women to be raped and murdered, boldly shot it out with the army. Last September, while President Guillermo León Valencia was decorating army officers at Armero in Tolima, Sangre Negra contemptuously sacked a nearby town, Totarito, adding 28 more deaths to the list. Though there is no accurate record, authorities place the blood of 223 on his hands...