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Death squad
A death squad is an armed group that carries out killing, often in secrecy, extrajudicial assassinations and forced disappearances of persons such as opposition groups, dissidents, suspected sympathizers or members of rebel groups, street children, land reformists, activists, thieves, and others perceived to be potentially or actively interfering with a social or political status quo.
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