Dirty wars are offensives conducted by regimes against their dissidents, marked by the use of torture and forced disappearance of civilians.
Dirty War may also refer to:
Specific historical events
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Dirty War (Argentina, 1974–1983), period of state-sponsored violence against dissident and other citizens carried out by the military governments of Jorge Rafael Videla and others
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Dirty War (Mexico)
The Mexican Dirty War ( es, Guerra sucia) was the Mexican Theater (warfare), theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI-ruled government under the presid ...
, 1960s through 1980s internal conflict, between the US-backed PRI government and left-wing student and guerrilla groups
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GAL (paramilitary group) (Spain, 1983–1987), illegal death squads established to fight Basque separatist militants
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Years of Lead (Morocco)
The Years of Lead ( ar, سنوات الرصاص ''Sanawāt ar-Ruṣāṣ'', french: années de plomb) was a period of the rule of King Hassan II of Morocco, from roughly the 1960s through the 1980s, marked by state violence and repression agains ...
(1960s-1980s), period of state violence against dissidents under King Hassan II sometimes described as a dirty war
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The Troubles (1968–1998), ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland sometimes described as a dirty war
Other
* ''
Dirty Wars'', a 2013 documentary film based on Scahill's book
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''Dirty War'' (film), a 2004 British television film about a terrorist attack on central London
* ''Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield'', a 2013 book by
Jeremy Scahill about U.S. covert warfare
See also
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Guerra sucia (disambiguation) (Spanish for ''Dirty War'')
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