Tolemaida Air Base
| Tolemaida Air Base | |||||||||||||||
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| IATA: TOL – ICAO: SKTI | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Colombian military | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Melgar, Colombia | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 493 m / 1,617 ft | ||||||||||||||
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Tolemaida Air Base (ICAO: SKTI) is a Colombian military air base located in Melgar,[1] a municipality of the Tolima department in Colombia.
Facilities
The air base resides at an elevation of 1,617 feet (493 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 04/22 has an asphalt pavement measuring 9,280 by 96 feet (2,829 m × 29 m) and 04L/22R with a concrete surface measuring 1,431 by 65 feet (436 m × 20 m).[1]
Sexual assaults
A joint commission of the Colombian government and FARC released a report in 2015 documenting the rape of at least 54 girls by United States military personnel between 2003 and 2007.[3] The assaults were concentrated in and around the Tolemaida Air Base and Melgar. The report details a 2007 incident where a 12–year-old Melgar girl was allegedly drugged and kidnapped by U.S. Sergeant Michael Coen and military contractor César Ruiz who raped her and uploaded video of the assault to a pornography site. Due to bilateral immunity agreements the men were immune from prosecution.[4][5]
Gallery
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Colombian Army special forces
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Torre de Salto Tolemaida.jpg
Colombian special forces
at Tolemaida Air Base, 2007
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Airport information for SKTI from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ↑ Airport information for SKTI at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
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