| 单词 | death squad |
| 例句 | He’d been following current events in Latin America, including the murder of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero by a right-wing death squad. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We laughed like mad, strangely giddy, half in disbelief that we’d made it this far—across the water, through the woods, past snarling hollows and death squads of wights, all the way to London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I might as well be waiting for the death squad, I’m so scared. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In many communities in Natal and on the Reef around Johannesburg, a poisonous mixture of crime, political rivalries, police brutality, and shadowy death squads made life brutish and untenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What It’s About: The filmmakers ask people who once led Indonesian death squads to participate in fictional reenactments of the real mass-killings they perpetrated. How to Watch Every Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary 2013-12-05T13:00:42Z I’m curious about the reaction of Anwar and the other death squad members when they saw the finished product. The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ and Oscar Voters’ Aversion to Violence 2014-02-21T13:30:52Z In the background, bombs explode at all hours, guerrillas kidnap businessmen, government death squads murder indiscriminately and workaday life somehow manages to grind on. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z He offers grisly disquisitions on the death squads, on the disappeared, on body parts washing up on the beach. A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z What Trump failed to address was that Duterte has supported and employed the use of death squads, both as mayor of Davao and as president of the Philippines. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads re-enact some of their murders in the style of their favourite American movies. Oscars: Reporter's diary 2014-02-04T17:20:33Z Twenty years ago, an opinion writer for The New York Times described Colombia as a country dominated by “drug killings, paramilitary massacres, guerrilla kidnappings, death squad murders and street crime.” How to Rebrand a Country 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Shifting from individual to societal empathy, Beam has a moving section on Eugene de Kock, the notorious South African death squad chief who captured, tortured and killed many in the anti-apartheid resistance. How Does Empathy Work? A Writer Explores the Science and Its Applications 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z By contrast “The Act of Killing” zooms in on Anwar Congo, a leader of the death squads responsible for the killings. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z After World War Two a handful of leading death squad members were charged with war crimes. Nazi hunters seek German probe of WW2 death squad suspects 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The main character in the film, Anwar Congo, was the one of the most feared death squad leaders in the area around the city of Medan in Sumatra. Film reopens old, long-buried wounds in Indonesia 2013-02-27T05:35:36Z Food and medicine shortages are common, and widespread protests have been met with systematic repression: a recent U.N. report documents thousands of dissenters who have been murdered by pro-government death squads. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Recruited by the army in 1965, Congo's gang became a death squad who fashioned their murder methods after their Hollywood idols. No Indonesia return, says director 2014-02-18T11:48:36Z As a movie fan, “he understands the significance of that,” Mr. Oppenheimer said, even if his death squad colleagues and the Indonesian government “hate the film, as they should.” The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z “The Act of Killing,” about Indonesian death squads, has been available for free download in that country since September, its filmmakers said. The Carpetbagger: ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ and ‘The Square,’ Shortlisted 2014-01-01T22:34:22Z Whoever it is can give orders to that death squad in Queens. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 11: Is Quinn Just a Natural Killer? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In 2009, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murders carried out by a military death squad while he was in office. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z She sees the abject poverty of peasants forced to work themselves into early graves and observes the operation of a death squad on the streets of the capital. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He convinced former death squad members, including his primary subject, Anwar Congo, to re-enact some of their more gruesome killings in the swaggering style of the hard-core gangster films they revere. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Written and illustrated by a former village school teacher called Amir Hasan, it describes a series of killings he helped carry out as a death squad leader during the Indonesian genocide of 1965. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “History is written by the winners,” muses one of Mr. Oppenheimer’s subjects, who led a right-wing death squad in North Sumatra. Movie Review: ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres 2013-07-18T16:01:22Z The main character in “The Act of Killing” is a death squad leader named Anwar Congo, responsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in a large city on the island of Sumatra. The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z He has picked out members of death squads born after 1920, he said. Nazi hunters seek German probe of WW2 death squad suspects 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Other festival films include a documentary , "The Look of Silence", about massacres in Indonesia in the mid-1960s where death squads killed as many as 1.5 million people in purges following a failed communist coup. Venice film fest puts hard-hitting global issues on screen 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The talk turned to the government’s brutal tactics for fighting the country’s left-wing guerrillas, in a dirty war waged by death squads that dumped bodies in the streets and an army that massacred civilians. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Including some members of the SS, many historians say the death squads killed more than a million Jews. Nazi hunters seek German probe of WW2 death squad suspects 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z This is more than confirmed when the real perpetrator is freed after conviction on the grounds that he's a valued freelance informer and operator, presumably for police death squads. The Secret in Their Eyes 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Furthermore, even the SS death squads were appalled by the bloody work of their Romanian auxiliaries on the eastern front – repaid in kind, needless to say, by the Red Army. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z And it is Adi that Oppenheimer’s camera tracks as he sets out to confront the leaders of the death squads who murdered Ramli, having gained access to their homes by arranging to test their eyes. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z We trained and funded the death squads of Guatemala, the elite troops who did a lot of the massacring. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z Forché describes being chased by death squads — not once, but twice. A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The movie’s unnerving stillness is nowhere near as disturbing as the unremorseful confessions from the former death squad leaders. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The League is a theocratic, secessionist organization whose leader, Michael Hill, had called for the formation of death squads targeting journalists, elected officials and other members of “the elite.” Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “Ballad of the Castaños” describes brothers who led exceptionally brutal paramilitary death squads. Ballads Born of Conflict Still Thrive in Colombia 2010-09-04T20:10:00Z In fact, soldiers killed thousands of civilians throughout the war and assisted death squads in the large-scale extermination of Eastern Europe's Jews. TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z She more recently exposed the hand of federal authorities in the mass kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, handed over to a narco death squad for execution. Director Matthew Heineman: ‘Suddenly I was alone with my camera in the middle of this shootout’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Walter Blume, a commander in the Einsatzgruppen, the notorious SS death squad, was known to gather his men after a day of murder for evening singalongs around a campfire. How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Around 2007, lurid details of Mexican drug violence scared off many Americans, and reports of police corruption, mass killings and death squads helped spur a nose dive in tourism. Killings stir fears in Mexican community 2011-12-28T06:01:00Z “The Act of Killing” focuses on a group of low-level, aging gangsters in the North Sumatra capital of Medan who were part of the death squads. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Speaking during a debate in Parliament a few months earlier, he told the House of Commons that "the allegation that our armed forces operated so-called death squads in Afghanistan" was "simply not true". Minister raised concerns over closure of SAS war crimes investigation 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z In "banana republics" the enemies of the leader and the regime are usually imprisoned, tortured, executed, and face death squads and mass executions. Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z His own father, who had accused the military of sponsoring death squads, was assassinated in 1987 by paramilitary forces that had turned his hometown, Medellín, into a war zone. They Tried to Rally South America Behind Ukraine. They Nearly Got Killed. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z His career almost derailed in the late 1990s, when two members of Congress accused him of lying under oath while testifying about Haitian death squads. James F. Dobbins, Leading Authority on Nation Building, Dies at 81 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z It is alleged that Mr Kabuga used his large fortune, made in the 1970s tea trade, to buy machetes used to arm the Hutu death squads. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect unfit to stand trial, UN court rules 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The court found the spymasters guilty of establishing training camps and deploying infamous death squads, the paramilitary units called the Red Berets. Yugoslav war: UN increases sentence on two Serbian war criminals 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Given how Texas has historically treated Hispanics and Latinos and other non-whites, human rights organizations have warned that these militias will be de facto death squads. Violence is the new Republican grift 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z We just saw a gunman in Dallas wearing "right wing death squad," a phrase attached to right wingers. “We got to rise up, everyone”: Rep. Jamaal Bowman battles the normalization of Trump 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z At least 50,000 Polish social, political, and intellectual elites were murdered by SS death squads or regular German soldiers in a campaign codenamed “Operation Tannenberg.” Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also rightist paramilitary groups, often referred to as “death squads,” fighting against leftist guerrilla forces in the countryside and committing murders and massacres. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Visible during the attack was a clothing patch the killer wore with the letters RWDS, which stands for "right-wing death squad", a phrase popular among white supremacist groups. Texas mall shooting: 'Neo-Nazi' Texas gunman opened fire at random - police 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Other far-right gear and online memes specifically glorify Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the brutal Chilean military dictator whose death squads killed thousands of political opponents. Texas shooter’s ‘RWDS’ patch linked to far-right extremists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The Pinochet government was notorious for assembling death squads that murdered their leftist enemies. After Texas Mall Shooting, Searching for Motive and Grieving for Children 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Fujimori was convicted of crimes against humanity involving extrajudicial killings and kidnappings by a military death squad he had created. Two Former Peruvian Leaders Share the Same Jail. Another May Soon Join Them. 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z How well organized do the mobile death squads seem to have been? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He was made chief prosecutor at the trial of members of the Einsatzgruppen, mobile SS death squads that operated within Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and are estimated to have murdered more than a million people. Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z The group has sold patches and T-shirts adorned with the acronym and celebrating Pinochet’s death squads. Texas shooter’s ‘RWDS’ patch linked to far-right extremists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Hollywood actor Don Cheadle played Rusesabagina in the hit movie “Hotel Rwanda,” which was inspired by his experiences as a hotel manager protecting Tutsi guests from Hutu death squads. Rwanda frees Paul Rusesabagina, inspiration for ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ U.S. says 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Shia death squads retaliated with their own reign of terror. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Iraq's death toll mounted, amid car and truck bombs, improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, beheadings, sectarian death squads and torture chambers. Iraqi ambush of Americans made a mockery of 'Mission Accomplished' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Opponents have accused him of running sectarian death squads following the U.S. invasion, an accusation he denies. Factbox: Who has run Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It has also been claimed that he used his large fortune made in the 1970s tea trade to buy machetes used to arm the Hutu death squads. Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide trial halted over dementia claims 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z On several occasions, she has compared the protests to one of the country’s darkest chapters, a two-decade period when leftist insurgents terrorized the country and military death squads massacred civilians. ‘We Have to Come Here to Be Seen’: Protesters Descend on Lima 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Under her rule, Bangladesh’s special forces, the Rapid Action Battalion, have been accused of turning into a death squad. Bangladesh Arrests Opposition Leaders as Crackdown Intensifies 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z During his government’s counterinsurgency campaign, dozens of civilians died in extrajudicial killings at the hands of death squads that prosecutors said Mr. Fujimori had created. What We Know About the Political Turmoil in Peru 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Edith Anaya, 40, an activist and forensic doctor, compares the current sociopolitical environment to the late 1970s, when political opposition was crushed and right-wing paramilitary “death squads” began to carry out assassinations and “disappearances.” El Salvador President Bukele's reelection bid stokes L.A. immigrants' fears of new civil war 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The CIA is a rogue and unaccountable paramilitary organization with its own armed units and drone program, death squads and a vast archipelago of global black sites where kidnapped victims are tortured and disappeared. Fake justice from the puppet-masters: The persecution of Julian Assange 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z A single mother from a favela not far from Chapadão, she was passionate about stopping abuse by police, whom she accused of acting like death squads. ‘The police come here to hunt’: Brazilian cops kill at 9 times the rate of U.S. law enforcement 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Instead I gave them politics, death squads, a dumpy secretary stuck pet-sitting her neighbor’s cat and a hired goon with a love for rock music, all of them caught in the turbulent summer of 1971. Silvia Moreno-Garcia ignored the experts and trusted her instincts. Now she's a bestseller 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z His administration supported the right-wing government, which used death squads to silence dissent. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Right-wing death squad activity spiked following a historic 2016 peace pact with leftist rebels. High-risk Colombians say GPS devices only add to dangers 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Another major shift: aiding a regional network, known as Operation Condor, to arrest or extradite political opponents, many later “disappeared” as apparent victims of death squads. Francisco Morales Bermudez, ex-Peruvian military ruler, dies at 100 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Among them were six auto plant workers at the Mercedes Benz factory who were abducted by right-wing death squads for having union sympathies. Argentine ex-army officers jailed over 'Dirty War' crimes against humanity 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z At a 2016 senate hearing into the killings, police whistle blowers described how a "Davao death squad" planted guns and drugs on victims to frame them. The bloody legacy of Rodrigo Duterte 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In Iraq's sectarian 2006-2008 civil war, the Mehdi Army was accused of forming death squads that kidnapped and killed Sunni Muslims. Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Their maternal uncle, Roberto D’Aubuisson, was the leader of a right-wing death squad responsible for one of the war’s most notorious acts: The assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero while he was celebrating Mass. As El Salvador’s president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to street gangs 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But he also made clear that there was no end in sight for what he falsely called Russia’s campaign to rid its neighbor of “torturers, death squads and Nazis.” Ukraine war’s economic toll is testing the West’s unity against Russia 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The military would keep fighting to rid Ukraine, in his false telling, of “torturers, death squads and Nazis,” but Mr. Putin did not make any new attempt to prepare his people for a wider conflict. In Speech, Putin Shows Reluctance in Demanding Too Much of Russians 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z But he was also condemned for his violent methods, including using death squads and sending the military to shut down Congress and the judiciary in 1992. Peru should not release jailed ex-President Fujimori, says Inter-American Court 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Two years later, he was convicted of human rights violations for the extrajudicial killings of 25 civilians by death squads during his government’s counterinsurgency campaign. Peru’s Top Court Reinstates Pardon for Former President Alberto Fujimori 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In several days, Nazi death squads killed more than 30,000 Jews as part of campaigns across the Soviet Union. After decades of building their lives in Ukraine, Jews are once again fleeing the country 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Targeted assassinations, orchestrated by CIA death squads, were ubiquitous. In war, there are no "worthy" or "unworthy" victims: That's how we justify our crimes 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Some 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews were killed, most by mobile Nazi death squads known as Einsatzgruppen, aided by local collaborators in what later became known as the Holocaust of bullets. Opinion | The Ukraine of My Childhood Is Being Erased 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It is built on Europe's largest mass grave, where Nazi death squads killed more than 33,000 Jewish people in 1941. Ukraine conflict: Your guide to understanding day six 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Roman Catholic Church beatified two priests and two lay people Saturday, all victims of right-wing death squads during El Salvador’s civil war. 2 priests, 2 lay people beatified in El Salvador 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z They accuse the two men of enabling white South Africans to keep hold off their ill-gotten wealth, and apartheid's death squads to enjoy comfortable retirements. After Desmond Tutu, a time for new South African heroes 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z “Get out war! Get out hate! Get out death squads! Get out corruption! Get out drug trafficking and organized crime,” Castro said. Honduras leftist leader could present opportunities for US 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z As it battled with Sunni fighters of Al Qaeda for supremacy in Iraq between 2006 and 2008, Mr. al-Sadr’s fighters were accused of running death squads and conducting sectarian cleansings of Baghdad neighborhoods. After Iraqi Election, a Shiite Leader Emerges as an Unlikely U.S. Ally 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z His Mahdi Army roamed the streets as death squads during Iraq’s civil war, targeting civilians and public officials alike. In Iraqi elections triggered by protests, voters only trickle in 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z It alleged that he unlawfully obtained Canadian citizenship in 1960 by hiding his participation in a subgroup of the Einsatzgruppen death squads from immigration officials. World Digest: Sept. 23, 2021 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Helmut Oberlander had been fighting the Canadian government's latest effort to revoke his citizenship over his involvement with a Nazi death squad. Helmut Oberlander: Ex-Nazi death squad interpreter dies at 97 in Canada 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z After decades of conflict, Iraq today has a relatively stable government, and the car bombings, suicide attacks and death squads have subsided. Death and suffering in Iraq a painful legacy of 9/11 attacks 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z According to the Times, he concluded that the agency could legally pay informants who were members of death squads — provided that they weren’t the ones carrying out assassinations. John Rizzo, CIA lawyer who approved torture program, dies at 73 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z He added that “death squads responsible for the killing of numerous protesters are in custody, including more than 150 individuals.” Helping Iraq makes strategic sense after end of U.S. combat mission 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Fujimori was convicted in a series of trials on corruption and other charges, including directing the activities of a death squad. Pedro Castillo, Leftist Political Outsider, Wins Peru Presidency 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z With virtually no membership screening, oversight or internal discipline at this point in their history, the Rangers became something like a death squad. Review | Along the border, echoes of revolution and Pancho Villa 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Its death squad Hamas already attacked Israel with thousands of missiles, as they, too, were looking forward to a “return to normal.” At G7, Biden is slow, confused and seemingly dazed 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z While U.S. forces and U.S.-trained Iraqi death squads destroyed their country, they hunkered down in the Green Zone in Baghdad and controlled and looted Iraq's oil revenues for the next 17 years. We need a people's vaccine — not just to fight the virus but to fight for global economic justice 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z He eventually returned to Peru and was arrested on charges that linked him to death squads. In Peru’s pandemic election, a rural schoolteacher challenges a political dynasty 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “No matter what we do, the situation will always remain the same. Those death squads will always be in power.” In Iraq, powerful militias assassinate protesters with impunity 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z In Honduras, it spent more than $1 billion in military aid and tacitly supported death squads. Their Lawsuit Prevented 400,000 Deportations. Now It’s Biden’s Call. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, refugees first began fleeing north, especially from El Salvador and Guatemala, then riven by war, repression and the violence of local paramilitary and death squads. Will Biden’s Central America plan slow migration — or speed it up? 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z "Dozens and hundreds more murdered by an institution that can claim 'they were scared' and execute someone. How are they different from a death squad?" Talking to the boogaloo, part 2: Exclusive conversations with a would-be revolutionary 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Carlos Mauricio, a college professor kidnapped and tortured by U.S.-backed right-wing death squads in El Salvador; executive director, Stop Impunity Project; Progressives tell Biden: Don't roll out the red carpet for "torture enablers" 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z California simply seized the land, and the new state government sponsored death squads that massacred thousands of Indigenous people. ‘There’s good fire and bad fire.’ An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The Bellingcat probe suggests the FSB, supposedly a law enforcement body, serves as Mr. Putin’s extrajudicial death squad. Opinion | The U.S. can’t keep ignoring Russia’s brazen use of chemical weapons 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Most of the victims have been either innocent civilians or people just trying to defend themselves, their families or their countries from foreign invaders, U.S.-trained death squads or actual CIA-backed terrorists. Is Dwight Eisenhower's ghost haunting Joe Biden's foreign policy team? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And in August, Uribe was arrested by Colombian authorities on charges related to ties with right-wing paramilitary death squads. Colombia's far-right wing backs Trump, aiming to help him in crucial Florida vote 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The new allegations, if proved, reinforce the conclusion that the kingdom is led by a crown prince who commands death squads and continues to evade accountability for murder. Opinion | A chilling new chapter of alleged perfidy by the Saudi crown prince 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The suit also accuses Prince Mohammed of creating a 50-man “death squad” known as the Tiger Team to go after Saudis at home and abroad whom he perceived to be a threat to his standing. Former Saudi Official Accuses the Crown Prince of Trying to Kill Him 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It said in a statement that he had died fighting "the Pakistani army and members of its proxy death squad". Middle-class students fighting for a homeland dream 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z And that is why in countries such as the Philippines Facebook has been used to marshal public opinion in support of death squads. Roger McNamee: ‘Facebook is a threat to whatever remains of democracy in the US' 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z He was placed under house arrest in August, facing charges of witness-tampering in a case involving his government’s alleged support for right-wing paramilitary death squads. Colombia's far-right wing backs Trump, aiming to help him in crucial Florida vote 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Dlamini describes hearings arranged in 1982 in Washington for Congress where supposed “reformed terrorists” – in fact members of a secret police death squad – told of the misdeeds of the ANC and their communist backers. 'A hell of a lot of hurt': writers confront South Africa's apartheid past 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z According to Swanson’s book, “The terms ‘death squads’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ would not enter common usage for another sixty years or so but that was what the Rangers were and what they did.” MLB's Texas Rangers face pressure to change name amid heightened scrutiny over symbols, historical figures 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z By 1990, death squads in Central America pushed the Latin American death toll into the hundreds of thousands. Opinion | The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The May 22 editorial “We should give Haiti compassion, not criminals” was absolutely correct in calling for the Trump administration to refrain from deporting death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant to Haiti. Opinion | Deporting ‘Toto’ Constant to Haiti would be a disaster 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But now the Herald reports that the Trump administration is again planning to deport the death squad leader, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, as early as next week. Opinion | We should give Haiti compassion, not sick people and criminals 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Fighting for "freedom" during the Cold War meant sponsoring death squads in Indonesia, Iran and numerous Latin American countries. It's not just Trump: America's indifference to death has made this crisis worse than it had to be 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z They are accustomed to living in fear – of starvation from drought in Guatemala, or death squads in El Salvador or drug cartels in Mexico. Why is Trump insisting that meat-packing plants stay open despite risks? | Art Cullen 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Later in 1981, just four months after the Ireland squad had left South Africa, the anti-apartheid activist Griffiths Mxenge was savagely assassinated by a death squad in a township south of Durban. John Robbie: ‘The apartheid leaders wanted to kill me with a crossbow’ 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z But the Pentagon had pumped billions of dollars into Iraq and secured a relative, if tenuous, stability by subduing Sunni Muslim insurgents and Shiite death squads that had each terrorized the country. As U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan, Diplomats Are Left to Fill Uncertain Mission 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came close to sending to Haiti five individuals who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, as well as a notorious Haitian death squad leader. Opinion | We should give Haiti compassion, not sick people and criminals 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z They escaped a brutal 12-year civil war that the U.S. government fomented and sponsored in the 1980s, spending billions of dollars to help support government oligarchs and right-wing death squads. Central Americans have long migrated north. Today, their studies are getting their due 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Particularly fitting is that a leader of the L.A. death squad represents the San Fernando Valley, the epitome of sprawl. Suburban sprawl wins again in the battle against California's housing crisis 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z My family fled by foot and bus to the U.S. in the 1980s as right-wing death squads were killing and torturing thousands across El Salvador, including several of my relatives. Commentary: When Latinos are shut out of the book industry, you end up with 'American Dirt' 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Politicians signed pacts with these paramilitary death squads. The people of Colombia are cracking up the walls of war and authoritarianism 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z We sponsor coups, fund death squads, stage unjustified invasions and enable all manner of human rights violations in exchange for economic and political gain. The Democrats must become a real anti-war party | Hamilton Nolan 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z They watched death squads riddle bodies with bullets, faced down the National Guard in hope of escape, abandoned dreams to start over in Los Angeles, left behind mothers who would lose multiple sons to immigration. A civil war in El Salvador tore them apart. Their high school reunion brought them back together 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z William Blum, the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, points to a litany of American sins from invasions, bombings, overthrowing of governments, assassinations to torture and death squads. Suleimani killing the latest in a long, grim line of US assassination efforts 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Part death squad, part criminal enterprise, their ranks are filled with retired and off-duty police officers who kill at will, often with total impunity. Where the Police Wear Masks, and the Bodies Pile Up Fast 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Erased from memory, apparently, is the long U.S. track record of sponsoring foreign military dictatorships, fascist cadres, paramilitary death squads and other forces generally detrimental to “democratic values” around the globe. Complicity with imperialism is holding back the anti-Trump resistance 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The Act of Killing followed Congo, who was part of a notorious death squad that executed hundreds of suspected leftists, after he was invited to re-enact the killings for the cameras. The mass killer who re-enacted his crimes 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Soon after, Navarrete learned that he and a cousin were on a death squad hit list. A civil war in El Salvador tore them apart. Their high school reunion brought them back together 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z It continues to recruit, arm, train and deploy paramilitary groups to tackle militants across the country, which one diplomat in the report referred to as "death squads". CIA-backed Afghan troops 'committed war crimes' 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Not only do the CIA and a U.N. report bluntly dispute his demurral but they also point a finger squarely at his former media adviser, Saud Qahtani, as the death squad’s likely supervisor. Commentary: Why the Desert X art festival deal with Saudi Arabia is morally corrupt 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z That was another era — of death squads, the Reagan Doctrine against communism, guerrillas wielding red banners and AK-47s. Disappeared in El Salvador: The return of a Cold War nightmare 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Their gang - which was known as the Frog Squad - became one of the most powerful death squads in the region. The mass killer who re-enacted his crimes 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z They expressed solidarity with the uprising of the Haitian people and demanded an end to U.S. support for the dictatorship and death squads in Haiti. Pro-democracy movement in Haiti swells despite lethal police violence 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Hereward meets a fierce swordsman on the road and the skilled fighter protects him from a Viking death squad tasked with capturing the book. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The violence of Guatemala haunts Los Angeles when refugee Antonio Bernal glimpses a tattoo like those worn by death squad members in his native land. The 20 essential L.A. crime books 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Equating drug users with drug pushers, Duterte doesn’t attack the systemic poverty at the core of the substance epidemic, but instead viciously punishes indiscriminately through death squads targeting those on a watch list. Review: ‘On the President's Orders’ zeroes in on the Philippines' deadly war on drugs 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In February 2004, these U.S.-trained death squads joined forces with a militia called the Cannibal Army in Gonaives, where they sacked the police station and took control of the city. Crises in Iraq and Haiti expose the failure of militarized neoliberalism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In 2005, he was captured in Chile and extradited to Lima, where he was eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses, corruption and sanctioning death squads. Dark days for Peru’s political dynasty after congress closes 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Maduro has responded to public protests by jailing and killing dissenters; death squads aligned with the government have assassinated at least seven thousand people in the past year and a half. The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In El Salvador, government death squads were stalking suspected insurgents. The Flores Agreement Protected Migrant Children for Decades. It’s Under Threat. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The distinctive online troll culture allowed rants about Hitler, gas chambers and death squads to circulate widely disguised as edgy “humour”. What induces men to imitate the Christchurch massacre? | Jeff Sparrow 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z When Duterte launched his presidential campaign in November 2015, he was a little-known mayor with a reputation for violence in the southern capital of Davao, where residents referred to him as the “death squad mayor”. The Catholic rebels resisting the Philippines’ deadly war on drugs 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Venezuelans interviewed by human rights workers referred to a particular security unit as a “death squad” or “extermination group,” the report said. Venezuela officials bury navy captain over family protests 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Saudi Arabian officials complained about the country’s diminished ranking on the annual Reporters Without Borders press freedom index, less than a year after a Saudi death squad murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US briefing: Acosta row, Trump slams 'foolish' May and RIP Rip Torn 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The magazine even drew parallels between the way it claimed Moro had taken “the law into his own hands” and the activities of death squads and vigilante killers. Brazil: calls grow for Bolsonaro ally to quit after 'devastating' report on leaks 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Rights groups say many of the undocumented killings were carried out by “death squads” and unofficial militias. Philippines senator defends police over toddler's death in drugs raid 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Trump speaks only of poor people, the majority of whom are women and children, escaping starvation and death squads in their home countries. Trump's authoritarianism can never be treated like business as usual 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Tepper, a mysterious Homeland Security agent known only as Jones, and a former South American death squad thug who has become Caitlin’s guardian angel. Review: Jon Land’s fans are in for another wild ride 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Surdel said that members of the National Police Special Forces, clad in all-black and known in Venezuela as "the death squad," stopped him as he was driving in Caracas. Polish journalist in Venezuela tormented, viciously beaten by government 'death squad,' his employer says 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Eighty thousand Salvadorans died, many at the hands of death squads and army units trained by the Americans, and afterward Salvadorans moved to the United States by the hundreds of thousands. - The Washington Post 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But there was “ample evidence” that left the family’s ties to paramilitaries “beyond doubt”, he claimed, pointing to the president’s well-documented public defence of death squads and militias. Bolsonaro paramilitary ties in spotlight after photo with murder suspect 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Back then, he and other volunteers escorted Central American migrants fleeing death squads through the deserts of northern Mexico to the border. Should activists aid migrants in the desert, or leave their fate to the Border Patrol? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The men responsible were part of the United States-trained death squads upholding military rule in El Salvador. Opinion | Everything I Know About Feminism I Learned From Nuns 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Several pounced again – to defend the Trump administration’s backer of death squads against Omar’s pointed questioning. Democratic party elites silence Ilhan Omar at their peril | Trita Parsi and Stephen Wertheim 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But Washington turned a blind eye to the human rights abuses carried out by the military and allied death squads under Duarte’s watch. El Salvador massacre: forensics teams dig for remains as US envoy faces grilling 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z He was widely criticized for shrugging off reports about the massacre of a thousand men, women and children by US-funded death squads in El Salvador. Ilhan Omar takes Trump's special envoy to task over his political past 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “This is why Maduro is using those death squads. The police, national guard & military rank & file will not attack their families & neighbors.” A Venezuelan air force general defected from Maduro’s side. Here’s what we know. 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Appointing a special envoy who has a checkered past of lying to congress, for funneling weapons to death squads in Central America – I don’t think that was a particularly smart move either,” Ramsey added. Mass protests to sweep across Venezuela as Maduro clings on 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Romero had been gunned down by right-wing death squads three years earlier, at the start of El Salvador’s civil war, for having spoken out on behalf of the poor. Amid wall debate, pope visits Panama with migration in mind 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Silva, an indefatigable man of fifty-three, belongs to a generation known for its fight against Spain’s so-called Pact of Forgetting; his own grandfather was killed by a Francoist death squad. Spain’s Open Wounds 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z US military and embassy officials over the years admitted to, even took credit for, the formation of informal death squads to assist military and security forces in the butchery. Why are Guatemalans seeking asylum? US policy is to blame | Gabriel Schivone 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Now white nationalist ideas are being broadcast on Fox News and mainstream right wing figures like Erickson are making "jokes" about reviving Pinochet-style fascist death squads. The alt-right isn’t dead: It was just taken over by Fox News 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The town has been a byword for atrocity since July 1997, when a paramilitary death squad arrived looking for Farc members. Colombia's victims of sexual violence finally get their day in court 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z That has made them more visible and therefore vulnerable to death squads hired by “people who have profited from the war who are afraid of losing what they have gained, such as land,” Cousins said. Colombia may have signed a peace deal, but activists keep getting killed - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The men who shot them were probably Lithuanian, not German – and the commander of the death squad, SS colonel Karl Jäger, was Swiss. Eighty years after Kristallnacht, why my family has become German again 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Miller's fellow brothers reported receiving warnings that Guatemala's armed forces intelligence unit, the G-2 death squad, was looking for them. Pope OKs beatification for US brother slain in Guatemala war 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Miller’s fellow brothers reported receiving warnings that Guatemala’s armed forces intelligence unit, the G-2 death squad, was looking for them. Pope OKs beatification for US brother slain in Guatemala war 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z He congratulated Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines because “of the unbelievable job” he was doing “on the drug problem” – a problem that Duterte is addressing by unleashing death squads that have killed thousands of Filipinos. Say goodbye to Pax Americana. Trump is accelerating its demise | Max Boot 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The pact was certainly convenient for the military and the death squads, which, according to the U.N.’s investigators, committed eighty-five per cent of the atrocities—against roughly five per cent attributed to the rebels. Archbishop Óscar Romero Becomes a Saint, But His Death Still Haunts El Salvador 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Of course it’s possible to condemn the “bloodthirsty killers” of Isis at the UN, and praise the “unbelievable job” of the death squads of President Duterte in the Philippines. As Trump cozies up to Saudi Arabia, the rule of law collapses further | Richard Wolffe 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Military death squads backed by U.S. forces were killing countless people. 'I want this day to heal me': For thousands, the canonization of Oscar Romero was deeply personal - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero was the most outspoken Salvadoran leader denouncing death squads aligned with the U.S.-backed government. Sainthood of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero hailed by thousands at L.A. Mass - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero’s murder was one of the most shocking in the long conflict between a series of US-backed governments and leftist rebels in which thousands were killed by rightwing and military death squads. Pope Francis canonises Óscar Romero and Pope Paul VI 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Paul presided over the modernizing yet polarizing church reforms of the 1960s, while Romero was murdered by El Salvador’s right-wing death squads for his fearless defense of the poor. Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI become saints 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z He praised Romero, who was gunned down by El Salvador’s right-wing death squads, as having given up his own life to be “close to the poor and to his people.” The Latest: Pope lauds new saints Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero’s murder was one of the most shocking in the long conflict between a series of U.S.-backed governments and leftist rebels in which thousands were killed by right-wing and military death squads. Slain Salvadoran bishop Romero and Pope Paul VI become saints 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, was gunned down by right-wing death squads as he celebrated Mass on March 24, 1980, in a hospital chapel. Pope to canonize El Salvador's Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero’s murder was one of the most shocking of the long conflict between a series of U.S.-backed governments and leftist rebels in which right-wing and military death squads killed thousands. Martyr priest, now Saint Romero, challenged power in El Salvador 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Romero was shot in the heart by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel in 1980. Mass in Los Angeles to celebrate canonization of Pope Paul VI, Archbishop Oscar Romero - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was gunned down by right-wing death squads as he celebrated Mass on March 24, 1980 in a hospital chapel. Pope’s canonization of Paul VI, Romero personal, political 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Turkish officials believe he was killed in side the building by a death squad that flew in from Saudi Arabia. Missing Saudi writer had big plans for his troubled region 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Turkish officials believe he was killed in side the building by a death squad that flew in from Saudi Arabia. Missing Saudi writer had big plans for his troubled region 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “The prospect of putting critics and activists abroad on Saudi blacklists while awaiting their turn for assassination by death squads is daunting!” tweeted Madawi al-Rasheed, a Saudi visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Disappearance of a dissident journalist puts young Saudi prince, a Trump ally, under a dark cloud - Los Angeles Times The gunman who killed him was contracted by right-wing death squads. ‘Miracle’ woman says El Salvador’s Oscar Romero a saint 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z A senior U.S. official whom I spoke to feared that Ortega was using death squads to silence his opposition. “Fake News” and Unrest in Nicaragua 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z He reports that once the death squads and military killers were exposed by the UN for genocide and widespread assassinations, they mutated into the criminal mafia and drug cartels. Child separation crisis background: Who caused the misery south of the border? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z His brother Santiago is currently awaiting trial for allegedly running his own death squad. Colombian journalists say death threats reflect 'ugly' climate under new leader 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z He could, however, come unstuck in the face of new charges of bribing and intimidating witnesses related to those death squad cases. Colombia ex-president alleges MI6 plot as death squad investigation closes in 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z He fled death squads, hid from soldiers when they broke into his home, saw classmates disappeared. Opinion | How to Make a Life From Scratch 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Santiago Uribe is awaiting trial on charges that he commanded a death squad called the Twelve Apostles, suspected in the murder of hundreds during the nation’s long civil war. In Colombian death-ranch case, some fear prosecution will be buried 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z For a long time, the United States government has been deeply involved in the support and training of death squads, and corrupt military officers, not only in Guatemala, but throughout Latin America. Child separation crisis background: Who caused the misery south of the border? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Another, a ranch hand, described a death squad boss roaming the property freely on horseback. In Colombian Death Ranch Case, Some Fear Prosecution Will Be Buried 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Uribe’s brother Santiago is currently awaiting trial for allegedly running his own death squad known as the Twelve Apostles. Colombia ex-president alleges MI6 plot as death squad investigation closes in 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z But in reality, his Mahdi Army became a central player in the revenge killings, employing death squads in Baghdad and operating prisons far outside the control of the central government. Public enemy or savior? An Iraqi city could reveal the true Moqtada al-Sadr 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z That was when Hutson wrote about Peroutka's ties to the League of the South, and its support of "death squads to assassinate journalists." Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter had deep, dark links to the alt-right 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z A divisive figure whose tenure in the 2000s was marred by allegations of links to right-wing death squads, Uribe is seen as the primary architect of Duque’s rise to the presidential palace. A conservative ‘D.C. Colombian’ wins his country’s presidency. Peace may be the loser. 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Santiago Uribe is awaiting trial on charges that he commanded a death squad called the Twelve Apostles that is suspected in the murder of hundreds during the nation’s long civil war. In Colombian Death Ranch Case, Some Fear Prosecution Will Be Buried 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z A decade later Santiago Uribe is now on trial for leading a death squad known as the 12 Apostles. Ex-rebel looks to defy odds in Colombia presidential race 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z New York-based Human Rights Watch has described RAB, in particular, as a "death squad" and called for it to be disbanded. Asia's newest drug war leaves more than 90 people dead in less than two weeks 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile his brother, Santiago Uribe, is awaiting trial on charges he was a leader in a death squad called the Twelve Apostles that was run from his cattle ranch. Declassified US cables link Uribe to Colombia drug cartels 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z As an opposition senator in the 2000s, Mr. Petro exposed ties between right-wing death squads and Colombian politicians, dozens of whom went to prison. Colombia’s Top Presidential Hopefuls: Ex-Rebel or Critic of Peace Pact With Rebels 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In El Paso, Texas, I worked with refugees from El Salvador’s brutal death squads, including children who journeyed alone to the US after losing both parents to CIA-supported death squads. The CIA has a long history of torture. Gina Haspel will be perfect for the job | James Cavallaro 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In the mid-1980s, Spain's security apparatus set up death squads, responsible for dozens of extrajudicial assassinations against ETA suspects. Spain vows to continue investigations into ETA despite Basque militant group's dissolution 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Often as ruthless as the rebels they opposed, many paramilitaries morphed into drug gangs and death squads known for particularly gruesome slaughters, sometimes with chainsaws and machetes. Special Report: A fractured peace – violent rivals rush into FARC... 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In place of the corruption, chaos and the freelance death squads of his predecessors, Ríos Montt brought a lethal modernisation to counter-insurgency. The death and cruel life of Efraín Ríos Montt 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The deaths caused a stir in Mexico, not least because of speculation that a police death squad was involved and because the authorities framed clearly innocent people. The lives and deaths of transgender Latin Americans 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Last year more than 600 Salvadorean officers were arrested for allegedly belonging to death squads, participating in shoot-outs or committing other crimes. In some countries, killer cops are celebrated 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z No one has ever been prosecuted for his murder but it is widely believed a right-wing death squad was behind it. Murdered archbishop to be made a saint 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In 2009, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for, among other atrocities, his role in creating a death squad that murdered an 8-year-old boy. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In the late 1980s, after an earlier peace deal, more than 1,000 rebel sympathizers and left-leaning politicians were systematically murdered by right-wing death squads. In peace as in war, Colombia's ex-rebels live apart from society 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z We overthrew Allende and replaced him with Pinochet, overthrew Mossadegh and replaced him with the Shah, intervened time and again in Central America in order to support right-wing dictatorships and their death squads. As Strongmen Steamroll Their Opponents, U.S. Is Silent 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Authorities recorded a conversation in which they allege Haque said, “We are a death squad sent by Allah and his messengers to avenge my Arab brothers’ blood.” London man said to discuss ‘death squad sent by Allah’ opens 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z When the US-backed Salvadorean army was using death squads and torture to stop leftist revolutionaries from seizing power, he used what would become his last homily to speak out against it. Murdered archbishop to be made a saint 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z He was later found guilty of knowing about death squads financed with public money that killed civilians. Peru’s pardoned ex-president hospitalized for observation 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z After being extradited from Chile, he was convicted on four charges of corruption and one of complicity in a death squad. Peru’s presidential hostage 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He later drew four more convictions, the most serious one charging him with knowledge of the existence of death squads financed with public money that killed civilians accused of being Shining Path members. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peru’s president, grants medical pardon for jailed Alberto Fujimori 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Later that year, interviewing Jewish refugees near the Turkish border, he recorded early reports of mass killings in eastern Europe by German death squads. Jon Naar obituary 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z As a former justice minister, she spent years investigating the president’s alleged connection to a “death squad” when he was the mayor of a southern Philippine city. Leila de Lima, jailed Philippines lawmaker, leads crusade against Rodrigo Duterte 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Presenting charges against a death squad kidnapping was not not something tolerated by the dictatorship. Argentina 'death flight' pilots sentenced for deaths including pope's friend 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead, he has offered immunity to police killing in the name of the “drug war”, while his government has denied allegations of death squads. Rodrigo Duterte: the president warlord of the Philippines | Observer profile 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z A soldier complains that the resistance is just killing people they disagree with, before musing about his death squad assignment. Wolfenstein II turns killing Nazis into uplifting political commentary 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z De Lima and Duterte’s enmity stretches back to 2009 when De Lima, as head of the government’s commission on human rights, launched a probe into the then Davao City mayor’s alleged use of death squads. How Antonio Trillanes Came to Take on Rodrigo Duterte 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z “Some of the doctors called us ‘the death squad,’ ” Crumb said. Amid a for-profit surge, a Port Angeles hospice has offered free care for 40 years 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Some hospitals in Baghdad became staging areas for death squads, from where Mahdi Army forces launched mortars against American troops. Lawsuit Claims Three U.S. Companies Funded Terror in Iraq 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It has also strived to silence its most outspoken critics, including jailing Senator Leila de Lima, who, as chair as the Commission on Human Rights, spearheaded an investigation into the Davao death squad in 2009. Rodrigo Duterte: the president warlord of the Philippines | Observer profile 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z More widely known as Arena, the party had been founded in 1981 by Roberto d’Aubuisson, a cashiered army officer who was widely regarded as the father of El Salvador’s right-wing death squads. Armando Calderon Sol, first president to lead El Salvador after its civil war, dies at 69 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “As we mourn Kenyans killed by Jubilee-mandated death squads, let's observe tomorrow as a day of mourning for the fallen patriots,” he tweeted Sunday. Kenya's opposition calls for a boycott to protest the deaths of 24 people in post-election clashes 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan’s administration funnelled the equivalent of $1m a day to El Salvador’s military dictatorship despite evidence of death squads and civilian massacres. El Salvador issues warrants for guerrillas who killed US soldiers during civil war 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Ask the citizens of Nicaragua, Colombia and El Salvador who suffered at the hands of death squads backed by the US. Trump's silence after the London mosque attack speaks volumes | Christian Christensen 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “Am I the death squad? True. That is true,” he told his local TV show in May 2015. Rodrigo Duterte: the president warlord of the Philippines | Observer profile 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Calderon Sol strenuously disputed allegations that he had participated in any violence, although U.S. intelligence reports said he had opened his home to death squad organizers planning their activities. Armando Calderon Sol, first president to lead El Salvador after its civil war, dies at 69 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z To enforce their global system, Americans never shied away from torture, black sites, death squads, assassinations, and other grim practices. Inside Donald Trump’s “America last” presidency 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z “I believe that is deliberate because they unleashed these death squads within the ranks of the P.N.P. and he’s not stopping them because that is the order,” Mr. Trillanes said. The General Running Duterte’s Antidrug War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Francis, meanwhile, spent Tuesday commemorating the Rev. Oscar Romero, a Salvadoran archbishop gunned down by right-wing death squads and who championed social justice and the rights of the poor. Pope welcomes Trump to the Vatican despite past disagreements 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Romero, seen by some as a leftist symbol, was shot dead in 1980 by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass at a hospital. World Digest: May 18, 2017 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The death squad was going around the city.”? EXCHANGE: War didn’t break Quincy surgeon’s desire to learn 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z He’s admitted to personally killing people while he was a mayor, acknowledged that he supports death squads and boasted of his authoritarian leadership style. Given his abysmal human rights record, if Rodrigo Duterte was not Philippines' president would the U.S. let him in? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z These critics say the Davao police looked the other way while the death squads operated with impunity, adding that in the 30 years that Mr. Duterte ruled Davao, no killer was ever successfully prosecuted. The General Running Duterte’s Antidrug War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z For about two decades as mayor of Davao, he was accused of allowing death squads to roam the city and kill freely. Editorials from around New York 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z When first summoned by the Senate committee in October, Lascañas categorically denied the existence of the death squad. International Criminal Court filing accuses Philippines' Duterte of carrying out 'national bloodbath' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The issue arose during the Iran-Contra scandal, when Marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North, an NSC official in Ronald Reagan’s White House, sold Iran weapons to fund anti-communist death squads in Nicaragua against Congress’ express orders. CIA liaison is first casualty of conflict between intelligence agency and Trump 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Conde added, however, that “in countries where death squads or extrajudicial killings have been used to combat drug gangs, such as in Latin America, we know that it’s not effective in the long term.” Duterte’s drug war is horrifically violent. So why do many young, liberal Filipinos support it? 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Imagine what could have been if we white South Africans were as outraged at apartheid, torture and death squads as we are at Zuma right now,” tweeted columnist Max Du Preez Tuesday. In South Africa, thousands from all races march against President Jacob Zuma, but unity remains elusive 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “Am I the death squad? True. That is true,” Duterte told local television in May 2015, a year before he was elected head of state. Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In February, a former police officer, Arthur Lascañas, 56, came forward and confessed to having led the death squad. Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The "death squad" and allegations of drugs-related extrajudicial killings were among the reasons for an impeachment complaint filed by an opposition lawmaker in Congress against Duterte on Thursday. Philippines' Duterte welcomes prospect of ICC case, says 'brutal' war on drugs to go on 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Punks in Colombia and Indonesia, where run-ins with military death squads or sharia police were a daily occurrence for those sporting pink mohawks, could quite rightly scoff at Black Flag’s police issues. How punk changed cities – and vice versa 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In the days after the election, as the message boards exulted in the power of their “meme magic” to alter the course of history, the hashtag #rwds did the rounds, standing for “right-wing death squads”. The best way to counter the far right? Know the enemy | Hari Kunzru 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z But the Duterte government has vehemently and repeatedly denied claims of police death squads, both in Davao and in the current war on drugs. Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Duterte has called the existence of death squads “a myth,” and the very few critics who challenge him are overwhelmed by his popular support. President Duterte’s List 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Two men, including the one who is expected to file the ICC case, have testified before the Philippine Senate saying they were part of an alleged "death squad" in Davao that killed at Duterte's behest. Philippines' Duterte welcomes prospect of ICC case, says 'brutal' war on drugs to go on 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z He pointed to the case of Filipino Senator Leila de Lima, a former justice minister, who spent years investigating Mr. Duterte’s alleged connection to a “death squad” as mayor of Davao City. Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs strains U.S. alliance 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr Duterte was mayor of the southern city of Davao for two decades, presiding over a big fall in crime but also being accused of sponsoring death squads. Philippines Duterte: I threw suspect from helicopter - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “That was one of the qualifications to be in the death squad,” he says. Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Critics say he supported death squads in the city and continues to do so as president. Philippines police say drug raids netted £120m worth of meth - BBC News 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But legislators found no proof of extra-judicial killings and death squads. Philippines' Duterte welcomes prospect of ICC case, says 'brutal' war on drugs to go on 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The commission had investigated Duterte during his time as mayor over allegations he ran death squads that killed more than a thousand petty criminals there. Philippines to investigate President Duterte's claims he killed suspects 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The Commission on Human Rights will also examine reports that so-called death squads killed several hundred people in the southern city. Philippines leader Duterte faces investigation over killings claim - BBC News 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr Duterte was mayor of the southern city of Davao for two decades, earning a reputation for cutting crime, and criticism for allegedly supporting death squads. Philippines: Duterte killing claim 'should not be taken literally' - BBC News 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z “These are death squads,” de Lima says simply, referring to the vigilantes that gun down suspected drug users in the streets, or sometimes in their homes. Leila de Lima: Leading the Fight Against Duterte's Drug War 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z When he was mayor of Davao City, Mr. Duterte was known to carry a .38 pistol and was accused of overseeing a death squad to kill people suspected of being criminals. Rodrigo Duterte on Killing Criminal Suspects: ‘I Used to Do It Personally’ 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He ran the southern city for two decades, earning a reputation for cutting crime, and criticism for allegedly supporting death squads. Philippines' Duterte admits personally killing suspects - BBC News 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Zijad was 15 years old on the night that – after his father and most other men had been taken away to concentration camps – Serbian death squads came back to “mop up” the women and children. Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia | Ed Vulliamy 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Duterte, once nicknamed “the death squad mayor,” swept to power last summer on a promise to “kill all” the country’s drug users and dealers and rid the country of crime. With hero’s burial for Marcos, Duterte endorses Philippines’ authoritarian past 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z For a death squad, the D.D.S. has a surprisingly good reputation. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Duterte, once nicknamed “the death squad mayor,” was famous for patrolling the streets on a motorbike, weapon at the ready. After Trump’s coup, a worldwide populist deluge? 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “If between death squads, citizen squads, rough police officers, they kill enough gang members to actually diminish the territorial control of the gangs — then who’s going to be in charge?” he asked. El Salvador’s conflict with gangs is beginning to look like a war 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The militants were also respectful, especially compared with the Iraqi army under former Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, an authoritarian accused by some critics of turning government troops into sectarian death squads. Life under Islamic State was strict and brutal, but some moments didn't seem so bad, Sunni Iraqis say 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Duterte has made himself popular with a vicious crackdown on drugs that features death squads. Duterte’s Fling With China Could Prove Fleeting 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z It is difficult to find a resident of Davao who is willing to speak out against the death squads. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Last month the Guardian reported how a serving senior police office had claimed that death squads were operating with official sanction in the capital, Manila, killing dozens of suspected drug users and pushers. Philippines senator calls for Duterte to face crimes against humanity inquiry 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Government death squads regularly dumped bodies, including the nuns’, in the area. El Salvador’s conflict with gangs is beginning to look like a war 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He declared a crackdown on suspected drug dealers, and vigilante death squads in Davao killed more than 1,400 alleged criminals, according to Human Rights Watch and other rights groups. Behind Philippine Leader’s Break With the U.S., a Lifetime of Resentment 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Here’s how one man survived when a Philippines death squad came after him Duterte renounces U.S., declares Philippines will embrace China 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z There is no shortage of theories about who the vigilantes are: drug syndicates killing their own, rogue police offing informants, state-sponsored death squads like the ones in Davao. In Philippine drug war, a family struggles to stay safe 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z That group is effectively a death squad for songbirds, killing an estimated 4 billion US avifauna a year; globally, island cats drive 14% of vertebrate extinctions. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z There, barangay leaders and police compiled similar lists that were used by death squads to assassinate hundreds of alleged drug dealers, petty criminals and street children, said Human Rights Watch in a 2009 report. Special Report: In Duterte's war on drugs, local residents help draw up hit lists 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Dela Rosa, meanwhile, rejected the claims about death squads, calling instead for the Guardian to reveal its source. Why would we need a hit squad? Philippines police chief denies state killings 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z There is no worry that death squads will round up Alzheimer patients, as they do not even qualify for the consultation, even if they’re terminally ill. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The fear is that the Philippines has slipped into an era of the death squad. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Explosive testimony rocked the country earlier this month, when a self-confessed former death squad member said he witnessed Duterte personally execute a government official with a machine gun in the early 1990's. Duterte Vows to Kill 3 Million 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Due to his acid tongue and backing of vigilante death squads, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is increasingly likened to a dictator. Rodrigo Duterte Invokes Holocaust to Defend ‘War on Drugs’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “Am I the death squad? True,” he said in May. Before Duterte was the Philippines’ president, he was ‘the Death Squad mayor’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The war gave rise to egregious abuses by the army, including extrajudicial assassinations and the rise of murderous right-wing paramilitary death squads. Colombia peace deal officially ends Western Hemisphere's longest war 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But first he reveals what for many will be shocking details of his employment in a death squad. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z More than 3,000 are estimated to have died in the drug crackdown as of Friday, the majority at the hands of death squads. Duterte Vows to Kill 3 Million 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But the peace agreement broke down when right-wing death squads killed about a thousand of the party’s members, including several congressmen and two presidential candidates. Colombia's rebels have survived war. Can they survive peace? 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z His political ascendancy has corresponded with reports of the widespread use of death squads to kill alleged drug offenders and other criminals. Duterte Invites U.N. to Investigate Death Squad Claims 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And on Thursday, a self-confessed former assassin testified that Duterte had personally ordered members of a death squad to kill criminals and opponents and even “finished off” a justice department employee with a submachine gun. Philippines: we cannot be 'the little brown brothers of America' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Davao is not the only place where it is claimed that death squads have operated and the concern now is that the tactics allegedly used in that city have been scaled up nationwide. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z He said he decided to tell what he knew about the Davao death squads after being made a "fall guy" in the killing of a businessman in the city. Philippine hitman says he heard Duterte order killings 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Critics allege Duterte largely achieved that transformation through aggressive use of extrajudicial "death squads." Duterte Once Killed a Man With an Uzi, Witness Says 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Rights groups have long accused Duterte of involvement in death squads, claims he has denied, even while engaging in tough talk in which he stated his approach to criminals was to “kill them all.” Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, ordered killings of 1,000, witness testifies 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In May last year, however, on his regular television show in Davao City, Mr. Duterte said: “Am I the death squad? True. That is true.” Philippine Ex-Militiaman Testifies That President Duterte Ordered Killings 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He has called them lies and “accusations of a madman” and previously stated that there were “no Davao death squads”. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z People who opposed the death squad, including some police officers, were deemed enemies and often targeted. How Countries Like the Philippines Fall Into Vigilante Violence 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z As do the para-political inquiries: In February, Mr. Uribe’s younger brother, Santiago, was arrested for supposed ties to a death squad, the Twelve Apostles. The Secret History of Colombia’s Paramilitaries and the U.S. War on Drugs 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z But the slayings in subsequent years of about 1,000 of the party’s office-holders and activists by right wing death squads quashed hopes for peace. The battles began in 1964: Here's a look at Colombia's war with the FARC rebels 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Back in 2009, Human Rights Watch investigated how the death squads operated. Rodrigo Duterte’s Campaign of Terror in the Philippines 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z According to the report, police officers would give death squad members lists of targets. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Once its ability to operate with impunity was established, Mr. Kine said, that death squad began engaging in contract killings for money. How Countries Like the Philippines Fall Into Vigilante Violence 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z But it is those at the lowest levels of the trade who are targeted by the death squads. Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living - BBC News 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His boast of the “1,700” suspected criminals killed by death squads during his time as mayor of Davao, where he was in office for 22 years, was also glossed over. The Killing Time: Inside Rodrigo Duterte's Drug War 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Borjas spent twenty-six years working in Honduran law enforcement, and was forced out of her post in 2003, after investigating a number of police officers suspected of running death squads. Should the U.S. Still Be Sending Military Aid to Honduras? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, in Manila talk of state-sanctioned death squads doesn’t raise many eyebrows. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “Am I the death squad? True. That is true,” he said. Death squads in the Philippines 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z One of those being hunted by the death squads is Roger - again not his real name. Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living - BBC News 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Duterte has denied having direct knowledge of death squads, but he has long called for addressing crime by killing suspects, whom he calls criminals and has referred to as “a legitimate target of assassination.” Body Count Rises as Philippine President Wages War on Drugs 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He commanded the death squads who murdered Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners-of-war, Roma and others categorised as "racially inferior". Himmler diaries found in Russia reveal daily Nazi horrors - BBC News 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But the previous responses from Duterte himself to allegations of involvement in death squads have been strong. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z From 1998 until this year he served as mayor of Davao City on the main southern island of Mindanao, where death squads took the lives of more than 1,000 people. Death squads in the Philippines 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “There’s no question there were quite a lot of allegations there . . . death squads for Maliki and all that,” he said. The force leading the Iraq army’s fight against ISIS went from ‘dirty division’ to golden boys 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z In his previous job, as mayor of this once lawless southern city, his war on drug dealers left a trail of bullet-riddled corpses, targets of police operations as well as vigilante death squads. Man in the Middle: Rodrigo Duterte Gets a Taste of China’s Heavy Hand 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The plan was executed by the Homs units of the Syrian Republican Guard and Special Forces working with a paramilitary death squad known as the shabiha, Arabic for ghosts, the lawsuit asserts. War reporter Marie Colvin was tracked, targeted and killed by Assad’s forces, family says 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Their supporters say police "death squads" killed them. Kenyans in fear of police 'death squads' - BBC News 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court in Ottowa on Thursday ruled that the Canadian government must prove he was a willing participant in the eastern Europe death squad in order to deport him from the country. Former Nazi death guard Oberlander in Canada court win - BBC News 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z While mayor of Davao City in the southern Philippines, hundreds of people were killed by what human rights groups say were government-linked death squads. Philippines’ New President, Rodrigo Duterte, Vows Tough Stance on Crime 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It is undeniable that death squads have operated in Davao, summarily executing suspected criminals in the street. Rodrigo Duterte Sworn In as President of the Philippines 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In April, activists warned Congress that death squads were targeting opposition activists, much like they did during the “dirty war” in the 1980s. Berta Cáceres's name was on Honduran military hitlist, says former soldier 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z But others say they would never support anyone associated with her father, who is serving 25 years in prison for ordering death squads to massacre civilians during his attempts to end the insurgency. Peru candidates neck and neck ahead of election, polls say - BBC News 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He is in prison for authorizing death squads and corruption during his decade in power as an authoritarian leader in the 1990s. Thousands march in Peru to oppose Fujimori before election 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you,” said Duterte, who has ruled Davao as mayor for most of the past two decades and is accused of links to vigilante death squads. Philippine president-elect says 'corrupt' journalists will be killed 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Its purpose was to allow cooperating countries to send death squads into each other’s territory – and sometimes further afield – to monitor, kidnap or kill political exiles. Operation Condor conspiracy faces day of judgment in Argentina court 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Immigration from El Salvador and Honduras is mostly a response to brutal gang violence and resurgent death squads; in Guatemala, although violence is sometimes a factor, the motive is often economic. Desperation drives American dream in Guatemalan town of lost opportunity 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Duterte, Davao’s longtime mayor, had previously boasted of links to vigilante death squads that had killed more than a thousand suspected criminals in the city. Philippines leader Duterte calls Catholic bishops 'sons of whores' 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Others say the citizens’ groups evolved into organized death squads that are still active. Rodrigo Duterte’s Talk of Killing Criminals Raises Fears in Philippines 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Where I live in New York City, I meet people who keep defying the bullets of the death squads, the cartels and their governments. Think undocumented workers are all cleaners and laborers? I was a priest | Juan Carlos Ruiz 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z These death squads targeted petty criminals, street children and drug dealers, according to Human Rights Watch, claiming the lives of more than 1,000 people, 132 of them children. These 5 Facts Explain Rodrigo Duterte's Victory in the Philippines 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Human Rights Watch dubbed him the “death squad mayor” for more than 1,000 extrajudicial executions of alleged criminals, including some street children, during his 20 years as mayor in Davao. In the Philippines, a dangerous strongman 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z They wonder how the man Human Rights Watch dubbed “the death squad mayor” will handle domestic and international policy, and are concerned about the return to the country of strongman politics. Rise of Philippines’ Duterte stirs uncertainty in the South China Sea 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Duterte’s inflammatory rhetoric has drawn comparisons to Trump, though the president-elect has a more violent history, and has admitted complicity in death squads. Paul Ryan offers to step aside for Trump 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Human rights activists have decried the political tactics at play, claiming that Duterte hired mercenary “death squads” to execute violent criminals. How Can the Philippines Elect a Guy Like Rodrigo Duterte? 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Human Rights Watch has said that he oversaw — or at least condoned — “death squads,” gangs of armed vigilantes who killed more than 1,000 suspected criminals, many of them young and poor. As Philippines election nears, front-runner Duterte makes many shudder 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The “Trump of the East” sobriquet undersells some of Duterte’s more surprising positions — he has publicly backed death squads; the Donald merely endorses torture — and does little to explain his popularity here. The ‘Trump of the East’ could be the next president of the Philippines 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The local authorities began arming civilian militias to tackle to communist insurgents, and those militias morphed into shadowy death squads which targeted anyone seen as a threat to public order. Philippines election: Populism, celebrity and ugly realities - BBC News 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z While Jimenez denied Duterte was linked to death squads, he said the mayor had a policy of using “peace keepers” – volunteers who “roam around during day and night” and clean up the city’s crime problems. Philippines' 'Duterte Harry': the would-be president accused of using death squads 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z He faces allegations that death squads committed extra-judicial killings to clean up the southern city of Davao that he’s run for 22 years. Philippine election could cause heartburn for its US ally 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z "The memories of the many innocent victims of Nato missiles and of the Islamist death squads of Albanians and Arab Jihadis in Kosovo are still raw," it said on Facebook. MEPs condemn €600,000 EU grant for far-right bloc - BBC News 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In a June 2015 report, “The rise of the Philippines’ death squad mayor,” Phelim Kine, deputy director for Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, traced Duterte’s history of endorsing the summary killing of suspected criminals. The ‘Trump of the East’ could be the next president of the Philippines 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z However, human rights groups accuse him of allowing vigilante death squads to carry out hundreds of extrajudicial killings. Philippine elections 2016: what you need to know 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Duterte has at times denied links to death squads while also making contradictory statements that he either condones or is even part of the vigilante group. Philippines' 'Duterte Harry': the would-be president accused of using death squads 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Instead, her primary contact with law enforcement is Teddy Butt, a bodybuilder who works nights on a police death squad. A Pakistani Novelist Tests the Limits 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The Mehdi Army was widely implicated in death squads that killed thousands of Sunni civilians and displaced many more from their homes. Iraq Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Followers Trigger Political Crisis 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Challenged about the legality of his “death squads,” he goaded opponents that he would just sign his own presidential pardon for mass murder. How Rodrigo Duterte Got to the Brink of Philippines Presidency 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Talk that the death squad is at the ready; that a new, bigger execution ground is in the making. A year after the Bali Nine executions, Indonesia prepares firing squads again 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z She also befriended former general and CIA Director David Petraeus, infamous for his links to torture and death squads. Democrats, this is why you need to fear Hillary Clinton: The NY Times is absolutely right — she’s a bigger hawk than the Republicans 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z However, human-rights groups allege “death squads” under his control were responsible for hundreds of extrajudicial executions. Philippine Election Front-Runner Insults Women's Group 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “Duterte has single-handedly promoted the death squad culture that we are seeing now,” says Carlos Conde, Philippines researcher for Human Rights Watch. Philippine Presidential Candidate Defends Rape Remarks 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z When Saudi Arabia or death squads linked to right-wing Latin American regimes backed by the U.S. behead people, the silence is often deafening. Debunking Washington Post’s absurd call for (more) intervention in Venezuela’s democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Her father’s government collapsed in 2000, and he is now serving a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted of embezzlement, bribery and organizing a paramilitary death squad. Economist Draws on Anti-Fujimori Vote in Peru 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In 2009, a Peruvian court found the ex-president guilty of corruption and human rights abuses, including authorizing extrajudicial killings by death squads. For Peruvian presidential candidate, the Fujimori name is an asset and a curse 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z He was jailed for 25 years in 2009 convicted of directing death squads which killed 25 people, embezzlement and bribing the media to smear his opponents. Thousands protest against presidential bid by daughter of corrupt former Peru leader 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Bowler Ben Stokes had been part of a death squad that had conceded a meagre 20 runs off the last four overs in the semi-final win against New Zealand. World Twenty20: T20 is keeping West Indies cricket alive 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The gangsters complain about police running death squads, their friends being driven off in pickup trucks and disappearing. El Salvador’s gangs call a cease-fire, but many doubt it will hold 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Copycat death squads popped up in other Chinese cities. The Fall of China’s Hedge Fund King 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Lagos also provided a vivid account of the death squad in action. Sergio Arellano Stark, driver of the ‘Caravan of Death’ under Pinochet, dies at 94 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Local police were paid to turn a blind eye to the activities of the death squad in the area, he added. Colombia ex-president Alvaro Uribe's brother arrested - BBC News 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z BOGOTÁ, Colombia—The brother of former President Álvaro Uribe was arrested Monday for his alleged ties to a right-wing death squad accused of murdering dozens of people in the country’s northwest in the 1990s. Former Colombian President’s Brother Arrested in Death Squad Probe 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The former police major said Uribe, who is a cattle rancher and horse breeder, ran the death squad from a ranch called La Carolina using short-wave radios. Brother of Colombian ex-president arrested as alleged death squad leader 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The court of appeal again overturned the decision in 2009 and ruled the cabinet must consider whether Oberlander was forced to join the death squad under duress. Alleged Nazi war criminal wins reprieve against deportation 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z That movie will duke it out with “The Look of Silence,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s gorgeous, heart-breaking companion piece to “The Act of Killing,” another documentary about Indonesian death squads that was Oscar nominated in 2014. Oscar nominations 2016: Complete list of nominees; ‘The Revenant’ leads with 12 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The main witness in the case is a former police officer, Major Juan Carlos Meneses, who said that many of the crimes committed by the death squad were planned in the Uribe family's farm. Colombia ex-president Alvaro Uribe's brother arrested - BBC News 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z During the U.S.-led war in Iraq from 2003-2011, Shiite militias and Sunni militants linked to al Qaeda fought each other with roaming death squads. Mideast Rift Rekindles Sectarian Tensions in Iraq 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Yet drawing the poison from decades of state-sanctioned Islamisation will prove far harder than picking off militant leaders—not least because death squads and the casual use of capital punishment risks a backlash. Job half-done 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The decision was upheld in 2015 by the federal court judge James Russell, who said Oberlander never sought to be relieved of his duties nor expressed remorse for his membership of the death squad. Alleged Nazi war criminal wins reprieve against deportation 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Mack's sister, Myrna - after whom the human rights organisation is named - died after she was stabbed in the street by a military death squad in 1990. Where women are killed by their own families - BBC News 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The alleged death squad was exposed in January 2013, after a killing at a local hospital. Jamaica's police at last being called to account for killings of civilians 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z He led the case against leaders of the Einsatzgruppen - roaming death squads who killed more than a million civilians in Eastern Europe. Nuremberg’s last surviving prosecutor - BBC News 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z During the decade-long American occupation of Iraq, U.S.-backed sectarian death squads like the Wolf Brigades rampaged through the country, terrorizing, torturing, and killing, often indiscriminately. Tony Blair is sorry for Iraq; Jeb will barely admit George W. Bush was president on 9/11 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The CIA refused to release information about Colonel Ochoa – who was highly regarded by American military trainers despite his suspected links to death squads – on national security grounds. Confidential files on El Salvador human rights stolen after legal action against CIA 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Peronism paved the way for the dictatorship in the 1970s, but was then decimated by the military death squads that followed. Shadow of Perón looms large over Argentina's presidential election 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Then they systematically targeted anyone opposed to them, creating a hit list and deploying death squads. Kunduz faces tough resurrection after brief Taliban takeover 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Men and women whom the junta deemed leftist subversives were abducted by death squads, most never to be seen again. Children of Argentina’s ‘Disappeared’ Reclaim Past, With Help 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z To this end, the forces were accused of employing "death squads", gangs of criminals allowed to unleash a reign of terror against those deemed enemies of the state. Pakistan's battle against Balochistan separatists sparks anger and suspicion - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z “The neighbors said I set the men up to be killed by a death squad, because I am Shiite and they were Sunni,” she said. An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As for Daniel, the sight of troops seizing control of the neighborhood no doubt evokes memories of civilians being slaughtered by military death squads during El Salvador’s long and bloody civil war. 'Fear the Walking Dead' recap: National Guard given shoot-to-kill orders 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z After all, this is a country where tens of thousands of civilians died at the hands of death squads during a 36-year civil war, and almost no one was held accountable. Guatemala Outsources a Corruption Crackdown 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The three-minute clip circulated online showed five masked gunmen wearing black under a familiar Shi'ite slogan and the title "death squad", but it was not immediately clear to which group they belonged. Video shows 18 Turks abducted in Baghdad, makes demands on Ankara 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The Caravana de Muerte was a death squad that began rounding up tens of thousands, but with no space in the jails the government needed other large public spaces to intern victims. Playing under Pinochet: How Chile’s stars of the 1970s feared for their lives 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But there’s no reason that any of this should be incompatible with one day writing about death squads in El Salvador. The Radicalization of Joan Didion 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z In Brazil, the existence of vigilante death squads with links to police is a persistent phenomenon documented in decades of court documents and prosecutions. Brazil Investigating Possible Police-Revenge Theory in Rash of Killings 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The vast majority of those killed were at the hands of state security, death squads, intelligence units, police officers and military counterinsurgency forces, according to a U.N. truth commission report. Guatemala Outsources a Corruption Crackdown 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Detectives in Manaus are investigating whether police death squads or criminal gangs were involved in a rash of execution-style killings that left 35 people dead in just three days. Brazil police may be to blame for 35 execution-style killings over weekend 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It recounts the tale of German industrialist Oskar Schindler's efforts to save Jews from Nazi death squads in World War Two. Schindler's List producer presents his Oscar to Yad Vashem memorial 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Arriving in Boise that same year was an Iraqi doctor whose father was tortured and executed in Baghdad by paramilitary death squads. Refugees in Idaho find both success, opposition 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Reports of the overnight “massacres” dominated morning television and radio, sparking on-air debates about police violence and the possible existence of vigilante death squads. Brazil Investigating Possible Police-Revenge Theory in Rash of Killings 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z When he asks a former death squad commander one question too many, the room freezes. Talking to Joshua Oppenheimer about his devastating follow-up to The Act of Killing 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Many of those former death squads are now operating as militia in Sunni-majority areas. I see no alternative to a larger, more intense conventional war against Isis | David Kilcullen 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Why were Bosnian Serb death squads able, unfettered, to murder more than 8,000 men and boys in a few days, under the noses of United Nations troops legally bound to protect the victims? How Britain and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Romero was slain by a right-wing death squad as he said Mass 35 years ago. Romero beatification signals Pope Francis' plan for Catholic Church 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Iraq’s police force in particular was overrun by militias, and the Ministry of Interior was believed to be running sectarian death squads. Gen. Dempsey’s first fight in Iraq shapes his approach to Islamic State 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z A day later, while giving mass, he was hit through the heart by a single bullet, killed by a right-wing death squad. El Salvador celebrates Oscar Romero but divisions remain - BBC News 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z And as political violence battered the country and death squads killed any activist who challenged the existing order, the archbishop was defiant. Honor Comes Late to Óscar Romero, a Martyr for the Poor 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z A sole “executioner” to turn prosecutor’s evidence at the trials, Dražen Erdemovic, described how death squads asked to sit down – they were so tired, killing wave upon wave, busload after busload, of men and boys. How Britain and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The comparison with clandestine paramilitary death squads that operated in the 1980s, killing and torturing thousands of unarmed civilians, political enemies of the regime and suspected guerrilla members, was unjustifiable. El Salvador’s strategy to combat violence 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The most urgent matter in El Salvador was not fostering episcopal unity but stopping brutal repression by the military and the death squads and averting a civil war. The Beatification of Óscar Romero 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Even the Vatican says that Romero “was shot by a right-wing death squad,” which, as everyone who understands recent Salvadoran history knows, was trained in the United States. Pope Francis vs. American imperialism: Catholicism, death squads, and the martyrdom of Óscar Romero 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z A United Nations truth commission found that his murder was planned by a group of officers led by Roberto d’Aubuisson, a former army major who led the death squads. Honor Comes Late to Óscar Romero, a Martyr for the Poor 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z They also fear a return to the height of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting in 2006-2007, when Shiite death squads killed civilians whose family names identified them as Sunni. Fallouja illustrates Iraq's challenge in retaking cities from Islamic State 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z He was giving her a ride home from school on his bicycle when the death squad apprehended them. Police in Brazilian city aided revenge killings, report says 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Yet the death squads, the military, and the wealthy financiers of his killing all professed to be followers of Christ. The Beatification of Óscar Romero 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Why have only three death squad operatives been tried and convicted? South Africa Turns Blind Eye to Its Tortured Past 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The archbishop was killed by a right-wing death squad. Pope Francis Approves Martyrdom Declaration for Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Archbishop 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Rather, Islamic State was tolerated as an antidote to the excesses of the Shiite Muslim-dominated Iraqi army, which many locals viewed as the equivalent of a Shiite death squad. Fallouja illustrates Iraq's challenge in retaking cities from Islamic State 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But some Sunni residents view the Shiite militias as little more than death squads and armed marauders. Iraq officials vow to investigate alleged massacre of Sunnis 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z And then, on March 24, 1980, a sniper from a right-wing death squad shot Romero in the heart while he was officiating Mass in a chapel in San Salvador. The Beatification of Óscar Romero 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Through the use of death squads, many apartheid defenders in South Africa conducted a dirty war against those whom they perceived as threatening the regime. South Africa Turns Blind Eye to Its Tortured Past 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. White concluded that El Salvadoran government death squads had been complicit in the crimes and conveyed those suspicions to the Carter administration’s State Department. Robert E. White, Ex-Ambassador to Latin America, Dies at 88 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z This then precipitated a Shia backlash in the form of death squads—some from within the Interior Ministry—who targeted not just Sunni terrorists and insurgents but Sunnis in general. The Iraq War: Bush’s Biggest Blunder In the first-person shooter from Ubisoft, set in a fictional stand-in for the Himalayan nations, you alternate between quiet hunter and one-man death squad. The best video games of 2014 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The beheadings of the Syrian personnel were filmed in death squad style, with militants standing behind a kneeling man in a dark blue overall. U.S. hostage Peter Kassig is killed by Islamic State 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z In effect, he ran a death squad and was directly involved in torture. South Africa Turns Blind Eye to Its Tortured Past 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z "On the government side there were death squads, torture chambers. It became a nation of terror in 1989." Sri Lanka remembers Stalinist rebel 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z But for the key post of interior minister, he chose Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban, an official of the Badr Corps, which many Sunnis view as a Shiite death squad. A handy checklist for the U.S. effort in Iraq That didn't change until the Sunni tribal "Awakening" - and only then because Sunnis feared genocide at the hands of Shia death squads. Iraq's hardest fight: The US battle for Falluja 2004 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But overwhelmingly, the commission found, atrocities were carried out by the Washington-supported armed forces and allied death squads. Laying Out a Case for Deporting Human Rights Abusers 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z He instead criticized Mr. Obama for sending minors to “summary return to the death squads from which they fled.” Martin O’Malley, a Hillary Clinton Loyalist, Is Now a Potential 2016 Alternative 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Many, perhaps all, of the men whose voices you can hear are swiftly murdered by IS death squads which move among them, shooting them in the back of the head. Is Iraq's army staging a comeback against IS? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Zuroff narrowed down the list of possible suspects by choosing the youngest from a list of some 1,100 known to his organization from the estimated 3,000 members of the death squads. APNewsBreak: Nazi hunter pushes for new probe 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Then we’ll start hearing once more about Shia death squads and the moral imperative to destroy them too – and any civilians who happen to get in the way. Why stop at Isis when we could bomb the whole Muslim world? 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z On al-Aqsa radio, Hamas called Fatah members “mercenary death squads” and “coup plotters.” Hamas radio station in Gaza reports on the sunny side of Islamist movement’s rule An exception is certain special forces, but their numbers are limited, and many Sunnis regard them as no better than death squad commandos. Obama strategy in Iraq, Syria hinges on long shots 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The cleric in question was Oscar Romero who, prior to his murder in 1980 by local death squads, held one of the most senior positions in the Catholic church of El Salvador. Noam Chomsky exclusive: Pope Francis, Oscar Romero and the horror of Reagan foreign policy 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Archbishop Romero denounced the right-wing death squads that operated in the Central American nation at the time and the oppression against the poor, calling for an end to all political violence. Pope lifts ban on 'left-wing' bishop 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z My first salaried job was going door to door, raising money for Salvadoran refugees fleeing civil conflict and death squads. A Menagerie of Ideas, Unlocked in Odd Jobs 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z In addition to abductions by members of the military and paramilitary forces, urban death squads prey on petty criminals as part of local officials’ campaigns against crime, the report said. Philippine Ex-General Wanted in Activists’ Disappearance Is Arrested 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Was he supposed to hide somewhere in Baghdad and hope that his Special Immigrant Visa reached him before the death squads? The Visa Crisis in Iraq 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Israel, he said, acted to protect its citizens from thousands of rockets fired from Gaza and from attacks by “death squads” through tunnels running under the border into Israel. Israeli Premier Voices Regret for Civilian Casualties, but Blames Hamas 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The killings recalled the carnage of the sectarian civil war of 2006-07, when death squads roamed the streets, killing thousands. Gunmen in Iraq reportedly kill at least 30 in upscale Baghdad area 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z According to private security officials operating in Baghdad, the Shia death squads, which operated with impunity at the height of the bloodletting from 2006 to 2007, are back. The View From Baghdad as It Braces for ISIS Onslaught At that point in the war, Sunni and Shiite death squads had taken hold of the capital. Chaos in Iraq prompts soul-searching among military veterans Not only was a religious and ethnic carve-up enforced across public life, but US commanders were directly involved in sponsoring an El Salvador-style dirty war of sectarian death squads to undermine the armed resistance. More US bombs and drones will only escalate Iraq's horror 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Saidiya was a flash point for sectarian killings during the civil war, when Sunni and Shiite death squads roamed the streets, filling morgues to bursting point. Fears of sectarian violence rise in Baghdad after killing of Sunni imam and prison inmates "This is not … about paramilitary policing and death squads," he said. Police chief condemns IPCC plan to keep officers apart after shootings 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z There are grisly tales of executions, bodies floating in the Tigris, mass graves, disappearances and much-feared death squads. The View From Baghdad as It Braces for ISIS Onslaught Arena’s origins lie in the far-right death squads linked to the military that were formed during the civil war to eliminate political opponents. No Winner Yet in El Salvador’s Close Presidential Race 2014-03-10T21:53:26Z But Filippino human rights activists report that the increased aid coincides with increased military death squad operations against civilians. 35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists 2014-03-08T15:00:00Z Tens of thousands of the region’s Jews disappeared into Nazi camps or were gunned down in their homes by death squads. Ukraine drama: A tale of two countries 2014-03-01T15:49:00Z Congo's gang, which had a reputation for violence, was recruited as a death squad by the army in 1965. Oscars: Reporter's diary 2014-02-19T21:45:07Z Mr Hashemi is currently living as a fugitive in Turkey, after an Iraqi court last year sentenced him to death in absentia for running death squads - charges he denies. Ex-Iraq VP blames Maliki for crisis 2014-02-15T23:24:24Z We opposed the terrorism of Basque separatists — but also the death squads that Prime Minister Felipe González’s Socialist government assembled to fight the separatist group, known as ETA. Op-Ed Contributor: In Spain, Fired for Speaking Out 2014-02-06T00:53:25Z The past three years have seen at least 158 people killed by death squads. 35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists 2014-03-08T15:00:00Z Worshippers at the mosque accuse the security services of operating a death squad, a charge the police deny. Youths riot in Kenya for third time over mosque raid, one dead 2014-02-05T19:14:31Z Reaction to news of his ordeal among opposition supporters and journalists was furious, with one journalist, Vitaly Portnikov, suggesting "death squads" were operating in Ukraine. 'Tortured' Ukraine activist wanted 2014-01-31T17:00:42Z There was a man there Ben had only read about: a man said to run death squads in El Salvador. Ditto boys: An elite Christian education 2013-09-15T17:00:00Z We resumed our investigation into the death squads. Op-Ed Contributor: In Spain, Fired for Speaking Out 2014-02-06T00:53:25Z The 2009 coup in Honduras has led to severe repression and death squad murders of political opponents, union organizers and journalists. 35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists 2014-03-08T15:00:00Z However, several thousand guards at concentration, labor, and death camps, Einsatzkommandos who belonged to roving death squads, and T-4 Euthanasia workers were sentenced to only one to three years in prison. How to Try a Nazi 2013-09-06T17:09:00Z There are also victims of right-wing paramilitary death squads and the National Liberation Army, a smaller leftist rebel group better known as the ELN. Colombia's FARC may face alternative justice, not impunity 2013-09-05T19:18:31Z Rather than attempt to interrogate the men on camera, he told them he wanted to make a Hollywood-style movie about the death squads of 1965. Indonesian Killers Shamed at Last 2013-07-28T08:45:00Z Some are suspected of having served as guards at Nazi death camps or being members of death squads responsible for mass killings, particularly early on in the war. German poster campaign to find Nazis 2013-07-23T22:41:05Z Prosecutors have accused Mr. Kenyatta of using his extensive family fortune to finance death squads in the midst of the violence that broke out after Kenya’s presidential election in 2007. Dwindling Witness List Threatens Case Against Kenyan President 2013-07-19T21:39:20Z The Act of Killing centers on a former death squad leader, Anwar Congo, who exults in these massacres—not from behind bars, but in broad daylight. How Asia Still Struggles with Histories of Genocide 2013-07-18T05:35:25Z Despite decades of American investment to promote stability in the volatile region of East Africa, Kenya just elected a president indicted by the International Criminal Court, accused of bankrolling death squads driven by ethnic rivalry. Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa 2013-06-27T01:11:26Z Joshua Oppenheimer That regime is still in power, and the men who led the death squads—men like Anwar Congo, the ‘star’ of this film—are still very much part of Indonesian political life. Indonesian Killers Shamed at Last 2013-07-28T08:45:00Z I vividly recall talking to one of our team on the phone as the building he was in was visited by a militia death squad. The opinion pollsters who dodged mortar fire and militias 2013-06-05T00:26:56Z Congress was suspended, political parties were abolished, strikes were made illegal and death squads roamed the country. Jorge Rafaél Videla, Argentina Military Leader in ‘Dirty War,’ Dies at 87 2013-05-17T14:42:36Z He was sentenced to death in Baghdad in his absence on charges of running death squads, accusations he denied. Baghdad government says PKK not welcome in Iraq 2013-05-09T13:03:09Z A death squad leader becomes a whistle-blower, a war-torn country experiments with democracy and investigative journalists reveal the secrets behind offshore tax shelters for the very wealthy. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Boston’s day of terror 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z Human rights activists accused Carranza of belonging to the country’s far-right death squads, responsible for Colombia’s worst massacres. Goodbye to a Stone-Cold Colombian 2013-04-20T08:45:00Z Ahead of his return, the Pakistani Taliban threatened to send a death squad to kill him. Why Is Pakistan's Former Military Ruler Now Running for President? 2013-03-30T00:35:25Z He was accused of organizing the illegal adoption by military families of children whose parents disappeared after being kidnapped by death squads. Jorge Rafaél Videla, Argentina Military Leader in ‘Dirty War,’ Dies at 87 2013-05-17T14:42:36Z But a graver threat is the Taliban, who paraded a death squad on TV, and threatened to kill him. The Celebrity vs. the Former Military Ruler: Pakistan's Election Season Begins 2013-03-25T20:05:19Z The former death squad leader now has become an evangelical Christian who says he is looking for redemption. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Boston’s day of terror 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z In an interview over a decade ago as he was held in prison awaiting a trial for funding far-right death squads, he angrily rejected the accusations. Goodbye to a Stone-Cold Colombian 2013-04-20T08:45:00Z "Pervez Musharraf you see the death squad around me," said a bearded man who appears to be their trainer, in English. Pakistan Taliban threaten to send Musharraf to "hell" when he returns 2013-03-23T08:37:42Z With support from the military and the police, right-wing death squads kidnapped presumed subversives and took them to secret detention centers, never to be seen again. Jorge Rafaél Videla, Argentina Military Leader in ‘Dirty War,’ Dies at 87 2013-05-17T14:42:36Z It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. Dying Iraq War vet’s angry message to Bush, Cheney 2013-03-19T20:01:00Z Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. The Life and Career of the New Pope Francis 2013-03-13T21:35:22Z There were no gulags, no death squads, no terror. Hugo Chávez's Venezuela: highlights from our Reddit discussion 2013-03-08T21:36:30Z In September, Tariq al-Hashimi, the vice president of Iraq and a prominent Sunni Muslim, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in absentia on accusations that he oversaw death squads. Moktada al-Sadr Encourages Demonstrations in Iraq 2013-01-01T22:27:20Z The arrest of the bodyguards on allegations of terrorism was reminiscent of the campaign last year against Tariq al-Hashimi, a leading Sunni politician who was then a vice president, on charges of running death squads. Arrest of al-Essawi’s Bodyguards Prompts Protests in Iraq 2012-12-21T22:34:49Z Shortly afterwards, a warrant was also issued for Mr Hashemi, accusing him of running sectarian death squads. Iraq minister blames PM for raids 2012-12-21T09:48:44Z He was accused of running death squads, tried in absentia, and sentenced to death. Iraqis locked in rival sectarian narratives 2012-11-22T01:53:31Z “Most troubling is the existence of police death squads.” Killing of Student Further Sullies Kenyan Police 2012-11-16T03:33:28Z There is an increasing suspicion that police death squads are at work. Brazil police at war with prison gang 2012-10-18T11:01:45Z The papers, dating from October 1962, show that four former officers from the elite Nazi death squads had been invited to the Cuban capital, although subsequent reports could only confirm that two had arrived. Fidel Castro’s Nazis 2012-10-16T08:45:00Z Hashemi was recently sentenced to death in absentia after an Iraqi court found him guilty of running death squads. Deadly bomb blasts strike Iraq 2012-09-30T16:22:42Z "In Sao Paulo a report by the civil police attributed 150 deaths between 2006 and 2010 to death squads in the north and east of the city." Freed Brazilian hit man shot dead 2012-09-27T21:18:09Z Hashemi, meanwhile, was sentenced to hang on charges of leading a death squad responsible for the killing of a number of Shi’ite political figures. Is the Regional Showdown in Syria Rekindling Iraq's Civil War? 2012-09-11T13:05:30Z He said the participation of policemen in extra-judicial killings was being investigated, but denied the existence of death squads. Brazil police at war with prison gang 2012-10-18T11:01:45Z Officers from the elite Nazi death squads had been invited to the Cuban capital, although subsequent reports could only confirm that two had arrived. Fidel Castro’s Nazis 2012-10-16T08:45:00Z On Sunday, an Iraqi court found Mr Hashemi guilty of running death squads. Iraq VP Hashemi rejects verdict 2012-09-10T08:49:45Z More than 30 others, the BBC has been told, were also killed by the death squad. Were Belarus metro bombers framed? 2012-07-30T05:24:37Z A makeshift memorial in front of the yard where Mr. Diaz died includes many pointed messages: “Anaheim police is death squad” and “Beware of the cops they kill our kids, you might be next.” Police Shootings in Anaheim Highlight Deep Rifts in a Community 2012-07-28T02:20:56Z These were violent times in Argentina - government death squads targeted radicals, and guerrilla groups attacked so-called "agents of the state". The 20-year odyssey of Evita's body 2012-07-25T23:24:34Z The U.S. government also revealed little of what it knew as the junta's death squads were eliminating opponents. 2 Ex-Argentine Dictators Convicted in Baby Thefts 2012-07-05T23:33:30Z Rwanda’s relations with Congo are defined by the genocide, in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu death squads. Is Rwanda Backing Rebels Led by a War Criminal in Congo? 2012-06-29T11:05:21Z Our correspondent says Gen Santoyo is just the latest in a long line of Mr Uribe's close associates and family members to be linked to drug cartels and right-wing paramilitary death squads. Colombian general on drugs charge 2012-06-18T23:18:19Z When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, Mr. Faber and his brother Pieter Johan Faber joined the German SS death squads operating there. Klaas Faber, War Criminal From the Netherlands, Dies at 90 2012-06-01T05:50:06Z Pro-democracy activists accuse the regime of deliberately recruiting death squads like this to fuel sectarian hatred. Syria: Has a civil war begun? 2012-05-31T15:42:59Z In December, the government issued an arrest warrant for Tariq al-Hashimi, the Sunni vice president, on charges of directing a death squad. Iraq Arrest Calls Fair Elections Into Question 2012-04-16T17:42:27Z Mr. al-Hashemi is wanted in Iraq on terror charges for allegedly running death squads targeting Shiite pilgrims, government officials and security ... Iraqi Vice President Arrives in Turkey 2012-04-10T16:39:45Z The Iraqi authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in December, accusing him of running an anti-Shiite death squad. | Middle East: Qatar Rejects Request by Iraq for Return of Fugitive Iraqi Vice President 2012-04-04T04:23:45Z In late December, Mr. Hashimi fled to Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region after the government accused him of using his bodyguards as a personal death squad and issued an arrest warrant. Iraq?s Fugitive Vice President Travels to Qatar 2012-04-01T15:36:18Z |
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