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Bookmark or Share- Death squad - WikipediaA death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror.
- El Salvador’s death squads have new targets but continue ...The observatory found that between 2015 through 2020 killings by police peaked in 2016 at 603 and have been in a sharp decline since. In 2020, the observatory recorded 88 cases of homicides by...
- ‘We can find you anywhere’: the Chechen death squads stalking ...Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former Chechen separatist commander, shot dead in Berlin in August. Whoever ordered the hit, the killing has once again underlined the perilous position of thousands...
- Death Squads: Definition, Problems, and Historical ContextDeath squads are found all over the world today, and in just the last 30 years have been responsible for hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of deaths.1 They did not disappear with the end of the Cold War, and they are certainly not a uniquely Latin American or...
- In Post-Coup Myanmar: ‘Death Squads’ and Extrajudicial ...They mark their victims by placing lanyards with the group’s logo over their the bodies and then sharing graphic images on social media, earning themselves the moniker of “death squads.” Since...
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