death squad

As a senator two decades ago, he asserted that a conservative president here led death squads.

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.

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

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.