Usually means: State-led secret violence against opposition.
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  1. dirty war: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. dirty war: Infoplease Dictionary
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  5. Dirty War (Mexico), Dirty War (disambiguation), Dirty War (film), Dirty War: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  8. dirty war: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  10. Dirty war: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Dirty War: Wiktionary

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noun:  (historical) A conflict (particularly one in South America) between a dictatorship against leftist revolutionaries or activists, typically characterized by extrajudicial repression like kidnapping, torture and enforced disappearance.
noun:  (historical) The period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor.

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