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
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Examples of dirty war
dirty war
At some point Burns will have to get down and dirty in this fight and go to war.
From the mirror.co.uk
Investigates state's dirty war by GAL death squads against Basque terror group Eta.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Russians have fought a dirty war against Muslim separatists in Chechnya.
From the fresnobee.com
But, in general, her profession is in the front-line of Nepal's dirty war.
From the economist.com
More polarization, economic troubles and a dirty war followed in Argentina.
From the economist.com
And where was this man's vision when ignoring the atrocities of Argentina's dirty war?
From the economist.com
He won widespread acclaim for putting military officers on trial for alleged dirty war crimes.
From the latimes.com
The left-wing terrorists, not the generals,started the dirty war.
From the time.com
About 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the dirty war, according to a government count.
From the washingtontimes.com
