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Bookmark or Share- Death squad - WikipediaA death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror.
- Sage Reference - The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism - Death SquadsAmong these characteristics, three distinguish death squads: tactics, structure, and affiliation. Most centrally, all death squads share a focus on killing targeted opponents or, less frequently, random citizens.
- Death Squads: The Nightmare of El Salvador - History CollectionBetween January 12 and February 19, 1981, 168 people were killed by security forces for breaking curfew. In efforts to defeat the insurgency, the Salvadoran Armed Forces targeted the civilian population by displacing or killing civilians in order to remove any possible base of support for the rebels.
- Death squads in El Salvador - WikipediaDeath squads in El Salvador (Spanish: escuadrones de la muerte) were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War. The death squads ...
- Top 10 Notorious Death Squads - ListverseDeath squads, or extralegal and paramilitary units tasked with carrying out extrajudicial executions, embody the eternal boot of tyranny like no other organizations on Earth.
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