Human rights group believed it to be a case of forced disappearance.

In 2010 and 2011, a high-ranking former colonel and a former general were sentenced to thirty and thirty-five years in prison for forced disappearance of the detained after the siege.

Forced disappearances on ideological grounds and illegal arrests, often based on unsubstantiated accusations, became common.

In addition, the forced disappearances was the military juntas attempt to silence the opposition and break the determination of the guerrillas.

It was during this period when most of the forced disappearances took place.