The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar...
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The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican...
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Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film, which accompanies the book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill. The film is directed...
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Dirty wars are offensives conducted by regimes against their dissidents, marked by the use of torture and forced disappearance of civilians. Dirty War...
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Dirty War is a single British television drama film, co-written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival and directed by Percival, that first broadcast on...
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A dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device is a radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of...
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The use of detention centers in the Dirty War, the period of state terrorism in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 caused immense fear for victims throughout...
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Reverend and the Makers (redirect from No Soap (In a Dirty War))
at Wembley Stadium. The band released a second single, "No Soap (in a Dirty War)" in October. McClure was in the media spotlight for his personal views...
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National Reorganization Process (section Dirty War)
while Peronists and leftists were persecuted. The junta launched the Dirty War, a campaign of state terrorism against opponents involving torture, extrajudicial...
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dictatorship's "National Reorganization Process" and the subsequent "Dirty War" against everyone deemed subversive, especially leftists, including left-wing...
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although fighting continued for several years after. The war has been referred to as 'the dirty war' (la sale guerre), and saw extreme violence and brutality...
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Raúl Alfonsín (section Aftermath of the Dirty War)
the presidency of Arturo Umberto Illia. He opposed both sides of the Dirty War, and several times filed a writ of Habeas corpus, requesting the freedom...
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Operation Condor (category Cold War)
Condor exacerbated existing political violence and contributed to the "Dirty War" that left an estimated 30,000 people dead or disappeared. Others estimate...
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Pope Francis (section Dirty War)
committed during the years of the dictatorship" in the 1970s, during the Dirty War. Bergoglio made it his custom to celebrate the Holy Thursday ritual washing...
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forbidden by the government to prevent the war from becoming more unpopular at home. It was called the "dirty war" (la sale guerre) by leftists in France...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guerra sucia (Spanish for dirty war) may refer to: Dirty War (Argentina, 1974-1983), a period of state-sponsored violence...
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The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine...
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Juan Perón (section Protection of Nazi war criminals)
Spanish). Clarín. Retrieved 6 September 2015. Cox, David (2008). Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976–1983: The Exile of Editor Robert...
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dare sully the Russian soldier with your dirty hands!" In what is regarded as one of gravest war crimes in the war, Russian federal forces went on a village-sweep...
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Dirty Work is a 1998 American buddy black comedy film directed by Bob Saget. The film follows long-time friends Mitch (Norm MacDonald) and Sam (Artie...
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Prosecutor. His tenure as Federal Prosecutor coincided with the height of the Dirty War, and a large number of Habeas Corpus inquiries were solicited at his office...
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him. Acosta was also accused of 143–500 disappearances during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the 1970s. Acosta Chaparro, son of the Mexican Army general Francisco...
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Leopoldo Galtieri (category Argentine people of the Falklands War)
Contras guerrillas during the Nicaraguan civil war. In domestic policy, General Galtieri continued the Dirty War with the 601 Intelligence Battalion death...
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Commentators have criticized him for a lack of legal activism during the Dirty War, an issue he would involve himself in as president. Kirchner ran for mayor...
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(2017). Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare, 1975–1980. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company. Bird, Ed (2014). Special Branch War: Slaughter...
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Argentina (section Independence and civil wars)
murdered thousands of political critics, activists, and leftists in the Dirty War, a period of state terrorism and civil unrest that lasted until the election...
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called the Mexican Movement of 1968 and is considered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when the U.S.-backed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government...
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Antonio Quarracino (section Dirty War)
project of law that would end all investigation of the crimes of the Dirty War, in order to "contribute to national reconciliation". This can be seen...
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estimated 600 Spanish citizens who disappeared in Argentina during the "Dirty War", evidence was presented to support the allegation that much of this repression...
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from 1976 to 1981, found guilty of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Dirty War and sentenced to life in prison. Nuon Chea (1926-2019)...
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