What is the meaning of dirty war?

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.
    • usage: "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"
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