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death squad

noun as in organized gang of killers

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Stewart, the group's leader, had told the officer that they needed to establish a "new einsatzgruppe" - a reference to Adolf Hitler's SS death squad.

From BBC

This, if true, had abandoned them to the death squads.

From BBC

His administration ultimately collapsed in a mire of scandals that ended with Fujimori in prison for embezzling government funds and maintaining extrajudicial death squads.

The death squads were on the payroll of the police, if not actually being the police themselves.

From Salon

A chilling scene finds him testing the vision of a man identified as the leader of a village death squad.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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