dirty war

1. 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 (synset 100982480)
   "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"
   referred to in: act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
   is a type of: offence, offense, offensive - the action of attacking an enemy

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