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Definition of Dirty war

1. Noun. An offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims. "Thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirty War

Literary usage of Dirty war

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide Honduras & The Bay Islands by Maria Fiallos (2006)
"dirty war General Alvarez, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, was trained in Argentina in the. As a diehard anti-Communist, Alvarez had been aiding ..."

2. Political Murder and Reform in Colombia: The Violence Continues by Juan E. Méndez, Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) (1992)
"The abuses of paramilitary and self-defense groups and of the armed forces are explained — and by some even justified — as the inevitable "dirty war" ..."

3. The Mother of All Webs Who Gotcha! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"“THE FARM” FOR dirty war GAMES TRAINING The CIA set up training facilities in the United States and overseas to prepare both its own career operators and ..."

4. Honduras: The Facts Speak for Themselves : the Preliminary Report of the by Human Rights Watch/Americas, Center for Justice and International Law (1994)
"In addition to being an elite counter- insurgent force, "the COE was converted into the command center of Alvarez's 'dirty war'."11 On this topic, ..."

5. Buenos Aires and the Best of Argentina Alive! by Arnold Greenberg (2000)
"This campaign of state-sponsored terrorism practiced against the Argentine people became known as The dirty war. Thousands of Argentineans simply ..."

6. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"Most of the defendants were former members of the "task forces" responsible for disappearances, torture and executions by the army during the "dirty war" ..."

7. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"This ruling would clear the way for trials of military officials accused of human rights crimes during the "dirty war." The ruling was issued in a 1978 ..."

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