death squad

noun

: any of various extremist groups whose members kill suspected political adversaries and criminals

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At the time, Carter's administration was asking Congress to approve some $5 million in military aid to assist in the fight against leftist guerrillas, despite several reports of right-wing death squads carrying out extrajudicial killings against union organizers, teachers and priests. —

Jasmine Romero, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025 Human rights groups have estimated that the police and death squads killed as many as 30,000 people suspected of drug use or involvement in drug trafficking. —

Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 The death squad that carried out the massacre was ready for anything that might crop up. —

Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024 According to police officers and internal United Nations documents, another relative from Spin Boldak ran death squads out of a special battalion at headquarters. —

Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for death squad