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dirty war

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Noun1.dirty war - an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"
act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
offence, offensive, offense - the action of attacking an enemy


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Cristina Quadri (Barbara Lombardo) has no idea she was adopted and that her birth parents disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War -- until she is summoned to the chambers of a judge (Hugo Arana) and introduced to the grandmother she never knew in ``Cautiva.
`CAUTIVA' A DULL TAKE ON INTERESTING TOPIC by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
We have talked one way but acted another, a mentality that brought us the Bay of Pigs and the never-ending embargo against Cuba, the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile and our sponsorship of the Pinochet dictatorship, our nod of approval to the Argentine dirty war, our interventions in Central America, and our complicity in the recent coups in Haiti and Venezuela.
Bad neighbor: the failure of U.S. policy in Latin America by White, Robert E. / Commonweal
With this story breaking in the Turkish media in November 2004 and the Kiziltepe story making national front pages in early December, it seems the secrecy behind the dirty war in the southeast finally may be becoming unmasked to a Turkish audience.
After years of silence, news of treatment of Turkey's Kurds begins to ... by Gorvett, Jon / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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