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death squads

n. (death squad English)

Usage examples of "death squads".

His friends had always assumed that being so wealthy and worldly, he knew all about hunters, all about death squads and vigilantes and weapons, and all the workings of the security net.

Even now when a quickly clenched fist risked being interpreted as handslang and the militia might be called or there might be a quick vigilante killing to save the area from renegade insurgents and the death squads they would bring.

The Wantouts, as they became dubbed, became an active underground opposition and replaced the Reds as the primary targets for both Lloyd-Ransom's paranoia and his death squads.

A politician goes and fights in the mountains after the death squads take his children.

Brown, the magazine's publisher, is an associate of General John Singlaub, a key Iran-Contra player who ran the genocidal Phoenix Program in Vietnam, and helped train death squads in Central America.

Even though the evidence linked the death squads to Salvadoran friends of Unomundo, no one in Washington gave Able the go-ahead to pursue the link to the International.