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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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