death squad
noun
: any of various extremist groups whose members kill suspected political adversaries and criminals
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According to police officers and internal United Nations documents, another relative from Spin Boldak ran death squads out of a special battalion at headquarters.
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The murder of Jews at Kamenets-Podolsky, Babi Yar, Odessa and 2,500 sites in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union not only involved German Einsatzgruppen (i.e. Nazi death squads) but many Ukrainian, Belarussian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian and
Hungarian collaborators.
—Dr. Irving Berkowitz, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
But the 79-year-old Duterte later said gangsters — not police officers — made up his death squad, adding to the ambiguity surrounding the squad’s operations.
—Reuters, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
In 2009, a special supreme court tribunal sentenced him to 25 years in prison for authorizing the operation of a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The murder of Jews at Kamenets-Podolsky, Babi Yar, Odessa and 2,500 sites in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union not only involved German Einsatzgruppen (i.e. Nazi death squads) but many Ukrainian, Belarussian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian and
Hungarian collaborators.
—Dr. Irving Berkowitz, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
But the 79-year-old Duterte later said gangsters — not police officers — made up his death squad, adding to the ambiguity surrounding the squad’s operations.
—Reuters, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
In 2009, a special supreme court tribunal sentenced him to 25 years in prison for authorizing the operation of a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Death squad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20squad. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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