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Definition of Death squad
1. Noun. A clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval).
Definition of Death squad
1. Noun. An armed group that carries out clandestine killings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Squad
Literary usage of Death squad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Into the Quagmire: Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Peru by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Americas Watch Committee (U.S. (1991)
"In addition to the civil patrols, there is another form of paramilitary activity
in Peru, the death squad. President Fujimori conducted a purge of the ..."
2. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Suspected death squad leaders (many of whose names had appeared on a list provided by
... More important, death squad activity began a sharp decline. ..."
3. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"Against rural movement opposition, direct military terror will sometimes be
employed by special forces death squad units, overtly or incognito, ..."
4. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"The State Prosecutor's Office determined that the death squad was responsible
... In Manaus, press reports in late May exposed a death squad run by police ..."
5. Police Brutality in Urban Brazil by James Cavallaro (1997)
"3 In a February 1994 report, we addressed police and death squad violence directed
... See Human Rights Watch/Americas, Final Justice: Police & death squad ..."
6. Colombia's Killer Networks: The Military-paramilitary Partnership and the by Human Rights Watch/Americas, Arms Project (Human Rights Watch) (1996)
"... in separate attacks by a combined military-paramilitary death squad between
1989 and 1991 has become one of the most well-known cases in Colombia.259 ..."
7. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS In the state of Portuguesa, a death squad composed of
off-duty members of the state police and National Guard was believed ..."
8. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 by Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (1999)
"It was reported that Pascoal, a former commander of the Acre state military police
had directed the death squad, had maintained close ties to drug ..."
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