Death squad
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A 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, revolu
Italian soldiers shooting Slovenian hostages. 31 July 1942
Cristero rebels publicly hanged on telegraph poles in Jalisco, Mexico. The bodies often remained on the poles until the pueblo or town renounced public religious practice.
A billboard serving as a reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the civil war
Esquadrão da Morte
Secret police
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Secret police are police, intelligence or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizatio
Death squad
…may not be prominent individuals. Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out alongside murders. They may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary, militia groups, government soldiers, policemen, or combinations thereof. They may also be organized as vigilantes, bounty hunters…
A machine used by the East German Ministry for State Security to re-glue envelopes after mail had been opened for examination