dirty war

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noun

an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims
- thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s
• Topics:
terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act
• Hypernyms:
offense, offence, offensive