Noun
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
Source: WordNetthousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s Source: Internet
Along with other members of the former junta, he was arrested in late 1983 and charged in a military court with human rights violations during the Dirty War and with mismanaging the Falklands War. Source: Internet
A girl flees to New York City as she grapples with her father's disturbing disappearance in Argentina's Dirty War. Source: Internet
He became a recluse and refused most requests for interviews by journalists, though in a rare interview he stated he had "no regrets" over anything he had done during the Dirty War. Source: Internet
Guerrillas and Generals: The "Dirty War" in Argentina, Paul H. Lewis, p. 51, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 Cámpora resigned in July to allow Perón to win the new elections held in October. Source: Internet
The following year, Balza voiced the first institutional self-criticism of the armed forces during the Dirty War, saying that obedience did not justify the actions committed in those years. Source: Internet