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Dirty War

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Noun

1. dirty war

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

Example Sentences:
'thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s'

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Dirty War

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noun
a war that is not fought in a conventional way observing the rules of war, but is a clandestine war involving assassinations etc
This decade has seen a protracted, dirty war in eastern Turkey
the secret underworld of Britain's 'dirty war' in Northern Ireland

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