 Jaime Humberto Uscategui, a former army general who had ignored calls for help during the massacre, was arrested in 1999.His trial took place in a military court and he was given forty months in prison for "omission" in 2001.On 25 November 2009, the Bogotá superior tribunal announced in a ruling of ninety pages that it had passed a forty-year prison sentence on 61-year-old General Uscategui.