 The prosecution claims that the military version of events is a cover-up, used to mask illegal executions, and maintain they were common during the Dirty War.It is believed that the massacre, which was ordered by then-Colonel Cristino Nicolaides, was in retaliation for the attack on the 29th Mountain Infantry Regiment in Formosa, carried out by Montoneros guerrillas on 5 October 1975 and which cost the lives of 14 servicemen.Defence lawyer Eduardo Sinforiano San Emeterio, maintains that eight of the prisoners