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There were later claims that Argentinian soldiers had booby-trapped children playgrounds and even toys in order to harm the local children, with only one documented case actually emerging of a hand grenade wedged under the floorboards of Stanley School that was found by Captain Brian Lloyd of the Royal Engineers but that was clearly aimed at causing casualties among the British troops like the booby-traps found in trenches and Stanley Racecourse that had been the former operating base of the 601st Combat Aviation Battalion.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/09/world/hills-around-falkland-capital-strewn-with-argentine-dead.html HILLS AROUND FALKLAND CAPITAL STREWN WITH ARGENTINE DEAD]</ref>

There were later claims that Argentinian soldiers had booby-trapped children playgrounds and even toys in order to harm the local children, with only one documented case actually emerging of a hand grenade wedged under the floorboards of Stanley School that was found by Captain Brian Lloyd of the Royal Engineers but that was clearly aimed at causing casualties among the British troops like the booby-traps found in trenches and Stanley Racecourse that had been the former operating base of the 601st Combat Aviation Battalion.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/09/world/hills-around-falkland-capital-strewn-with-argentine-dead.html HILLS AROUND FALKLAND CAPITAL STREWN WITH ARGENTINE DEAD]</ref>

The British also accused the Argentinian engineers of not keeping accurate records on the location of the minefields, a clear violation of the Geneva Convention with Major Guv Lukas from the British bomb-disposal unit reporting. '''A number of formal mine fields were laid out. But these were then thickened up by indiscriminate helicopter scattering."''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/09/world/hills-around-falkland-capital-strewn-with-argentine-dead.html HILLS AROUND FALKLAND CAPITAL STREWN WITH ARGENTINE DEAD]</ref>

The British also accused the Argentinian engineers of not keeping proper records on the location of the minefields, a clear violation of the Geneva Convention with Major Guv Lukas from the British bomb-disposal unit reporting. '''A number of formal mine fields were laid out. But these were then thickened up by indiscriminate helicopter scattering."''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/09/world/hills-around-falkland-capital-strewn-with-argentine-dead.html HILLS AROUND FALKLAND CAPITAL STREWN WITH ARGENTINE DEAD]</ref>

The Port Stanley Army Grouping commander, Brigadier-General Oscar Luis Jofre who oversaw the transfer of Port Stanley to the British authorities has contested the British claim that the Argentinian Army and Marines engineers had conducted themselves unprofessionally and has asserted that ''"although mines were brought forward by helicopter, they were never scattered by helicopter"''"and that "records were properly handed over by his engineer commander after the war"''.<ref>The British later made the accusation that some of the mines were scattered haphazardly by helicopter and again, that incomplete records were kept. Jofre stresses that, although mines were brought forward by helicopter, they were never scattered by helicopter. Also, he says, records were properly handed over by his engineer commander after the war. Argentine Fight for the Falklands, Martin Middlebrook, p. 225, Pen & Sword, 2003</ref>

The Port Stanley Army Grouping commander, Brigadier-General Oscar Luis Jofre who oversaw the transfer of Port Stanley to the British authorities has contested the British claim that the Argentinian Army and Marines engineers had conducted themselves unprofessionally and has asserted that ''"although mines were brought forward by helicopter, they were never scattered by helicopter"''"and that "records were properly handed over by his engineer commander after the war"''.<ref>The British later made the accusation that some of the mines were scattered haphazardly by helicopter and again, that incomplete records were kept. Jofre stresses that, although mines were brought forward by helicopter, they were never scattered by helicopter. Also, he says, records were properly handed over by his engineer commander after the war. Argentine Fight for the Falklands, Martin Middlebrook, p. 225, Pen & Sword, 2003</ref>