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Definition of death squad in English: death squadnoun An armed paramilitary group formed to kill political opponents. death squads had killed more than two thousand political and human rights activists Example sentencesExamples - In fact there was the wall-to-wall suspicion that the group was the closest thing to a death squad, absolutely beyond the reaches or control of the police commissioner.
- In 1976, when he was only five months old, his mother was murdered by a death squad during the brutal wave of repression by Argentina's military dictatorship.
- When the death squad arrives to kill his father, they decide it would be best to make the deaths look like an accident.
- So the prosecutors are keen to prosecute him on a 25-year sentence, for either drugs trafficking or links with a death squad.
- Prosecutors accuse him of authorizing a military death squad to kill 15 suspected leftist guerrillas in 1991.
- In the midst of the manhunt, a clandestine death squad emerged, and began murdering his associates, relatives, lawyers, and even his lawyers' families.
- The report cites the activities of a death squad armed and funded by the country's wealthiest businessmen.
- In 2001, he was indicted for the killings carried out by a death squad that executed 75 political prisoners in the weeks after the coup.
- But nobody really knows why their street was selected by the death squad.
- On December 1 a union leader was kidnapped by a paramilitary death squad.
- An Irish human rights worker hiding from a paramilitary death squad in Colombia has been allowed to leave an isolated region controlled by right-wing extremists.
- On April 7 a Colombian death squad struck at the family of a union leader, killing two adults and wounding three children.
- A quarter of a century after gunning down their victim, four members of a government-backed death squad were sentenced to 30 years each in prison for the murder.
- Last year evidence emerged of a death squad, known as the ‘Werewolves’, operating within the police force and responsible for a dozen murders.
- The death squad was sent across the country to murder political prisoners.
- The assassins were known to be members of a right-wing death squad.
- The Battalion was another name for the horrible death squad that was operating in Honduras at that time.
- He was part of a death squad working for the Nazis which killed more than 30,000 people along the eastern front.
- The death squad arrived at the hotel shortly afterwards looking for what locals said was the European.
- He was subsequently killed by a loyalist death squad.
Definition of death squad in US English: death squadnounˈdɛθ ˌskwɑdˈdeTH ˌskwäd An armed paramilitary group formed to kill particular people, especially political opponents. death squads had killed more than two thousand political and human rights activists Example sentencesExamples - A quarter of a century after gunning down their victim, four members of a government-backed death squad were sentenced to 30 years each in prison for the murder.
- On December 1 a union leader was kidnapped by a paramilitary death squad.
- In fact there was the wall-to-wall suspicion that the group was the closest thing to a death squad, absolutely beyond the reaches or control of the police commissioner.
- In 1976, when he was only five months old, his mother was murdered by a death squad during the brutal wave of repression by Argentina's military dictatorship.
- But nobody really knows why their street was selected by the death squad.
- Last year evidence emerged of a death squad, known as the ‘Werewolves’, operating within the police force and responsible for a dozen murders.
- On April 7 a Colombian death squad struck at the family of a union leader, killing two adults and wounding three children.
- Prosecutors accuse him of authorizing a military death squad to kill 15 suspected leftist guerrillas in 1991.
- The Battalion was another name for the horrible death squad that was operating in Honduras at that time.
- The assassins were known to be members of a right-wing death squad.
- In 2001, he was indicted for the killings carried out by a death squad that executed 75 political prisoners in the weeks after the coup.
- The report cites the activities of a death squad armed and funded by the country's wealthiest businessmen.
- When the death squad arrives to kill his father, they decide it would be best to make the deaths look like an accident.
- He was subsequently killed by a loyalist death squad.
- The death squad arrived at the hotel shortly afterwards looking for what locals said was the European.
- He was part of a death squad working for the Nazis which killed more than 30,000 people along the eastern front.
- So the prosecutors are keen to prosecute him on a 25-year sentence, for either drugs trafficking or links with a death squad.
- In the midst of the manhunt, a clandestine death squad emerged, and began murdering his associates, relatives, lawyers, and even his lawyers' families.
- An Irish human rights worker hiding from a paramilitary death squad in Colombia has been allowed to leave an isolated region controlled by right-wing extremists.
- The death squad was sent across the country to murder political prisoners.
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