Similar words: at death's door, death sentence, sudden infant death syndrome, squad, squadron, vice squad, flying squad, firing squad. Meaning: n. a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval).
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1. Paramilitary death squads are rumoured to be operating in the area.
2. Many guards are members of the death squads and openly discuss their activities in loud voices.
3. The death squad published a statement claiming they would cut off the head of every Committee member.
4. Those trained allegedly formed a death squad which directed its activity against pro-ANC activists.
5. Take more vigorous action against death squad networks.
6. Prosecutors said the alleged military death squad mistakenly killed 15 civilians during a botched raid at a neighborhood barbecue in Lima.
7. My guess: death squad.
8. But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads.
9. He faces trial on dozens of charges, including money laundering, drug trafficking and masterminding death squad killings.
10. This old man had already lost two sons-both journalists-to death squads.
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11. Whole villages have been massacred by extremists and faceless death squads.
12. In the first two weeks of January 1992, 18 more people were killed in murders bearing the stamp of death squads.
13. Reformists allege that the killings were part of a campaign by state-sponsored death squads to silence dissent.
14. This was the group, formally under army control, that operated as a death squad during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
15. Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads.
16. And finally, President Obama gave the orders to Navy seal Team Six, an elite unit formerly denounced as "Cheney's death squad," that resulted in the long-awaited killing of Osama bin Laden.
17. In another raid on the Hillah region south of Baghdad, security forces detained 11 suspected death squad members.
18. He said the priorities are to bring Baghdad under control, disband illegal militias, bring death squad leaders to justice and proceed with the national reconciliation process.
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