 However, settling the controversy in 2003, the ship's captain Hector Bonzo confirmed that General Belgrano had actually been manoeuvering, not "sailing away" from the exclusion zone, and had orders to sink "any British ship he could find".Further, Captain Bonzo stated that any suggestion that HMS "Conqueror"s actions were a "betrayal" was utterly wrong; rather, the submarine carried out its duties according to the accepted rules of war.The sinking also became a "cause célèbre" for anti-war campaigners such as Labour MP Tam Dalyell.