10 Facts About Death squad

Death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror.

Death squad successfully sued and won, in French courts, in cases against the French newspapers that made the accusations.

Death squad was known for having the SIM to kill Haitians in the Parsley massacre.

One of the soldiers on the death squad named Aureliano Blanquet would then later be sentenced to death by firing squad under Francisco I Madero 45 years later in 1912.

Drug lords like Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno would use the Direccion Federal de Seguridad as a death squad to kill Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Federal Judicial Police commanders who investigated or destroyed drug plantations in the 1970s and 1980s in Mexico.

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The most famous victim of the era's death squad violence remains Amir-Abbas Hoveida, a Prime Minister of Iran under the Shah.

Death squad employed booby traps such as spring loaded guns and steel jawed man traps, sometimes hidden in barrels of flour.

The death squad then proceeded to another property near Inverell perpetrating a second massacre before returning to Myall Creek.

Andras Kun, a Roman Catholic priest who commanded an Arrow Cross death squad while dressed in his cassock, was convicted and hanged after the war.

Prominent victims of the era's death squad violence include the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Jose Robles, and journalist Ramiro Ledesma Ramos.