Once the Malvinas War was over, the Commanders of the Armed Forces deployed intelligence and psychological actions and operations to prevent reports about the torture and humiliation suffered by the soldiers at the hands of their commanders from becoming public. However, upon being recruited again in Campo de Mayo after the war, several former combatants recorded these sufferings in the return forms they had to fill out in that military base.

It was not until 2007 that the first legal complaints were filed to request these acts be considered crimes against humanity. The primary case, which is pending with the Federal Court of Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, was filed by different organizations and plaintiffs. The case includes 95 defendants and almost two hundred former combatants who testified as victims or witnesses to practices such as staking and being buried under extreme temperatures for several hours, threats with firearms, beatings, electric current, submersion of the head in freezing water, and extreme hunger, among others.

The first prosecution of four military officers for torturing soldiers under their orders took place in 2020. In 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights admitted an appeal against the Argentine State for its delay in ensuring justice. In March 2025, the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation accepted a historical claim from former combatants. Thus, it enabled an extraordinary appeal for the Supreme Court of Justice to decide whether the facts in question constitute crimes against humanity. The court has accumulated 13 appeals in this regard, which are still pending a final decision.