Category:Dirty wars
Dirty wars. When "War" is capitalized the phrase "Dirty War" refers to the Argentine Dirty War. See this discussion. Otherwise, the phrase "dirty wars" refers to this dictionary definition:
From a dictionary search on Google:
- One of the definitions found:
Dirty War Index: a tool used to predict the possible outcome of a military war method(n) 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) "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"
- It is from Princeton University
See also: Dirty War (disambiguation)
Subcategories
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
0–9
A
- Algerian War (6 C, 70 P, 1 F)
D
- Dirty War (3 C, 40 P)
E
- Extrajudicial killings (11 C, 103 P)
G
- Guatemalan Civil War (2 C, 37 P)
M
- Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) (5 C, 59 P)
N
- Night and Fog program (21 P, 1 F)
O
- Operation Condor (5 C, 43 P)
S
- Salvadoran Civil War (5 C, 60 P)
- Second Chechen War (9 C, 39 P)
- Slovak Uprising of 1848–49 (1 C, 3 P)
- South Thailand insurgency (22 P)
T
- The Troubles (Northern Ireland) (23 C, 117 P)
Pages in category "Dirty wars"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.