19 Facts About Death squads

In Latin America, death squads first appeared in Brazil where a group called Esquadrao da Morte emerged in the 1960s; they subsequently spread to Argentina and Chile in the 1970s, and they were later used in Central America during the 1980s.

Death squads were instrumental in killing hundreds of real and suspected Communists.

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

Particularly notorious apartheid death squads were the Civil Cooperation Bureau and the South African Police's counter-insurgency unit C10, commanded by Colonel Eugene de Kock and based at the Vlakplaas farm west of Pretoria, itself a center for torture of prisoners.

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

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The DFS organized death squads to kill journalists including Manuel Buendia who was killed by orders of DFS chief Jose-Antonio Zorrilla.

The death squads allegedly committed "extrajudicial killings of civilians, forced disappearances of detainees, and attacks on healthcare facilities that treat insurgents, " according to Vice's reporting on the contents of the Human Rights Watch report.

Death squads were instrumental in killing thousands of peasants and activists.

Funding for the Death squads came primarily from right-wing Salvadoran businessmen and landowners.

The purpose of the original "Death squads Squad" was, with the consent of the military government, to persecute, torture and kill suspected criminals regarded as dangerous to society.

Peruvian government death squads carried out massacres against radicals and civilians in their fight against Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

Feature in a May 2005 issue of the magazine of The New York Times accused the US military of modelling the "Wolf Brigade", the Iraqi interior ministry police commandos, on the death squads that were used in the 1980s to crush the Marxist insurgency in El Salvador.

Death squads were active during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990.

Australia has a long history of the use of death squads dating back to the earliest days of European colonisation.

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

Death squads first appeared in Germany following the end of the First World War and the overthrow of the House of Hohenzollern.

The most infamous operations of Weimar-era Communist death squads remain the 1931 slayings of Berlin Police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck.

Republican death squads were heavily staffed by members of Joseph Stalin's OGPU and targeted members of the Catholic clergy and the Spanish nobility for assassination.

Ranks of the Republican assassination Death squads included Erich Mielke, the future head of the East German Ministry of State Security.