Talk:Death squad

message: "The use of computers by the American forces to compile lists of 'suspects' as well as the indefinite detention of 'suspects' in 'black' locations as well as their detention, torture, and execution without judicial oversight or protection is typical of American black ops in the Post World War II era."
--211.10.45.194 (talk) 12:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference please

message: Some of the death squads seem to be of a viglante variety, while others seem closer to psycho serial killers with unusually good organization. is their more precis terms that may reflect this difference?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.195.82.157 (talk) 20:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: disambigation?

message: The most recent edit removed the adjective Provisional in front of IRA. Actually, this was a more accurate statement. Though the term has evaporated in recent years, esp in the U.S. press, the "Provos" are indeed the current iteration of this 90-year-old movement. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/northern_ireland/2001/provisional_ira/2005.stm
As an aside, I am amused by press reports quoting the IRA's edict to "dump arms," as if this meant to destroy them. Of course this is an exact echo of De Valera's 1923 (whatever) order to the "Legion of the Rear Guard." They were to put their weapons into their arms dumps and save them for the "second round."
Actually the RIRA is the current IRA, the one you mentioned was active since 1997.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.41.124.8 (talk) 02:08, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: IRA

message: Stalin's NKVD did not employ death squads, except for a few special clandestine murders (Trotsky, Mikhoels, allegedly Kirov). It's nowhere near the million figure. Almost all arrests and shootings were conducted as official routine by regular operatives.
:Revisionist rubbish.  goes into great detail. --Nozzer71 (talk) 09:30, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction on USSR 

message: please stop re-editing in BS about Haiti. it makes no sense for the Clinton administration to be supporting FRAPH when a) Aristide was granted asylum in the U.S., b) thanks to the military regime we had to deal with a massive refugee problem, and c) Aristide was only restored to the presidency thanks to U.S. intervention. J. Parker Stone 22:49, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: But that isn't what's at issue, as has been explained before. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 22:39, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Alan Nairn's widely acclaimed (and as far as i know, indisputed) research clearly proves that FRAPH were CIA assets. As were other members of the Haitian military and police at the time including the drug trafficker Michel Francois. 74.102.158.68 (talk) 18:03, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haiti 

message: Trey Stone: I am sorry for deleting a comment of yours
; it was an accident. Normally, I never touch other peoples' comments on Talk pages. -- Viajero 00:16, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apology 

message: Please stop re-editing in supposed U.S. "support" for FRAPH. Being on the CIA payroll at one point does not mean the agency endorses everything you do -- it's an intelligence agency for chrissakes. Chilean DINA chief Contreras was accidentally paid once by the CIA while the U.S. cut off arms shipments to the country in 1976; and Noriega was on the payroll before, and we overthrew him in '90 (or '91, I can't remember.) Your tactic is nothing but a cheap attempt to smear the U.S. by oversimplifying and distorting the situation. J. Parker Stone 07:11, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So then would you say that the US never supported Noriega, because we eventually arrested him? That's absurd. Support is support. Overturning a bad policy doesn't mean you ignore the fact that the bad policy existed. --FCYTravis 00:31, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ATTN Davenbelle (again)

message: No discussion since 14 May, article protected far too long. Unprotecting. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:56, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unprotecting

message: I think there should be less history and more Latin America.
The situation in Latin America isn't really well represented.
Sarcelles 02:10, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and Latin America 

message: The article is at the moment couched in a mixture of British, U.S., and probably other forms of English.  I started making it consistent, but then thought that I'd better check the edit history. The first five versions were neutral between forms, but the sixth might have been U.S. English ("traveled") — though other typos, especially missing letters, makes that judgement tentative.  Still, assuming that it was U.S., I'm not qualified to bring it into consistent U.S. style; could a U.S.-English user do the honours? Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 14:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  U.S. English 

message: Outrageous the mistake of placing Brazil as part of America Hispaniola. 
Also, the amount of information avaliable for Brazil is surprisingly small; I shall add some other stuff when I get some research done.LtDoc 13:02, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error 

message: I would suggest that the phrase "[m]any Journalists have been harrassed by US military in iraq" and the containing paragraph in the introduction to this article be removed unless:
1)  It is shown that this statement in any way helps explain or illuminate the meaning of the term "Death squad."
2)  Sources are provided proving, or even detailing, this harrassment.
3)  The U.S. military personel accused of this are given a chance to defend themselves from this charge.
4)  There is provided along with the accusation definition of the word "harrassed" in this context.
5)  An explination is given as to why this paragraph belongs in the introduction to the article, when most of it (except for the accusation of harrassment) is included verbatum later, at the end of the article.
I also suggest that the entire purpose of this paragraph, with it's unsourced accusation, being placed so out of context in this article is simply so that the United States can be the first government mentioned this list of horrors and to place the names "United States" and "Iraq" in the back of the minds of readers while they peruse the rest of the article. And the fact that the paragraph is partially repeated word for word at the end leads me to believe that the author wished to leave readers thinking, not of the horrors of death squads, but of the guilt (or implied guilt) of the USA, turning the entire article into a "man's inhumainty to man" pamphlet with a "US in Iraq" front and back cover.
Jsminch 08:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This paragraph does not belong in this article. 

message: I have cleaned up the article, organized it, and moved older historical material to it's own page. More current information such as organization, strengths, and weaknesses have also been added. This version includes much of the non-historical text from the previous version. This version also has less national and political material which may help it to be more neutral in tone.
Please revert it if most of you find it to be largely unacceptable. Neutralaccounting 05:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up

message: This article is mostly psuedo-intellectual masturbation at the moment.  It should really be condensed and turned into a stub even if some credible information other than the speculation of a (bunch of) paramilitary hobbyist(s) can't be injected into it. 129.107.240.1 15:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many sub-divisions, not enough content 

message: See the following ground breaking report by Deborah Davies for the Channel 4 program 'Dispatches': "Over the last eighteen months these commandos - who are almost exclusively Shia Muslims - have been implicated in rounding up and killing thousands of ordinary Sunni civilians": 
and: 
It's also worth reading this:  
and this from the boston globe on government death squads killing more people than insurgent bombs:  Aaliyah Stevens 13:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The most significant death squads today are in Iraq

message: I merged and redirect Death squad history here since it was nearly identical (I did a diff on the text and copied over blocks that were different). Now I'm copying from the talk page:     RJFJR 20:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  copy from [[talk:Death squad history]] 

message: The entry for Iran refers to the Shah's regime as "relatively moderate".  This statement lacks NPOV.
The Khomanie was resposible for sending agents in to Iraqi Kurdistan to kill local Sunni leaders in the 1980s.--86.29.251.10 08:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Iran - NPOV

message: To remove unnecessary edits on a major article about death squads, I propose to divide this into number of articles. They are the main article called death squads and another article called List of death squads by country and another series on death squads on each country, that is notable all linked by a Death squad category RaveenS 21:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: I suggestion

message: Merge in the extrajudicial killings page to?--86.29.245.189 04:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The extrajudicial killings page also has a merge suggestion, except it's to be merged into this article. Or another one. I say keep this article as is, since it has a lot more content than extrajudicial killings does, although it could use a lot of cleanup. --clpo13 04:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Not just no, but heck no, this article has a long pedigree worked on by multiple editors. Extrajudicial killings is a two-day old article where they can't even use a spellchecker. That would poison the well. No with extreme prejudice". Chris 05:55, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: merge tag to [[Extrajudicial killings]]

message: We nead some more sources!--86.29.251.10 08:03, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I take responsibility for that. Neutralaccounting 00:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: This is my first edit since I wrote much of the body of the article and moved much of the historical data to its own section. I've emphasized the the nature of men to want to kill other men (thanatos?) especially their desire to kill those who can't kill them back (death squad) rather then the abstract political labels that are plastered over accounts of their activity. Neutralaccounting 00:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think some of that stuff should definitely be sourced, as otherwise it looks like original research or speculation. PubliusFL 13:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First Paragraph Changed

message: This article is a long list of acts of political violence, often confused with "death squads". Death squads are, in the strict sense of the term, military or paramilitary groups which attack civilians. To speak about "death squads" in the 16th century is a total anachronism. Tazmaniacs 20:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: I never knew that only South Korea ever used death squads, you learn something new every day. 
58.107.95.126 12:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Korea 

message: The UK section seems very bias on both sides. I don't know much about the topic so can someone else re-write the whole section. Forgot to sig.64.203.19.96 (talk) 11:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: UK POV

message: -the UK section refers to England using "drunk and trigger happy veterns of the first world war" being employed as death squads during the irish war for independence which is uncited and obviously biased.
- also in the USA section it talks about the KKK using death squads but would they be considered death squads? they were not sponsored by any form of government or even a political party for that matter.
-also shouldnt  without a citation be removed?
-im new to wiki editing so any contructive criticism is welcome.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.196.78.26 (talk) 05:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, better brush up on your homework regarding the history of the KKK.  Right after the Civil War, they were strongly supported by Southern Democrats (forerunners of today's "Blue Dogs" who controlled the local and state governments before and after the carpetbaggers; then, in its second incarnation, after the turn of the century through the 1920s, it included government officials of BOTH parties, nationwide, and in the North & West it was most often Republicans. I quote from the Wikipedia article on KKK:
Unlike its predecessor, which had been an exclusively partisan Democratic organization, the second Klan was courted by both Republicans and Democrats in the Midwest, and endorsed candidates from either party that supported its goals; Prohibition in particular helped the Klan and the Republicans to make common cause in the North. In the South, however, the Republican party was powerless; thus, the southern Klan remained Democratic, closely allied with Democratic police, sheriffs, and other functionaries of local government.
What about the Armenian Genocide
Shouldn't the actions of Ottoman Turkey count as a death squad  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.41.124.8 (talk) 02:23, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drunk Death Squads 

message: "Death squads may terrorist groups in that..." Death squads may be terrorist groups in that? Death squads may not be terrorist groups in that? I am not entirely sure what this is supposed to be saying, so could someone who is please fix this--Tangent747 (talk) 17:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence needs fixing 

message: The article was marked as unreferenced as far ago as in May 2008 so per verifiability all unreferenced content must be cleaned up. Perhaps someone will then add sources.Luis Napoles (talk) 02:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Luis, it is understood that all information should ideally be referenced - and it is unfortunate that much of this article is not (perhaps you could add some ref's as well). However, what you have done is ---> "selectively" remove certain passages (i.e. those dealing with right-wing or American governments whose actions your edits clearly show you support) like Pinochet's Argentina, 1960's Bolivia, Anti-FARC Colombia, Contra Guatemala & Apartheid South Africa, & any which may have utilized U.S. support (i.e. Haiti or Vietnam), while leaving all the other unreferenced passages which conform to your WP:POV. For a glaring example of this, you have transparently removed the unref'd passage about U.S. kidnappings and murder in 1960's Vietnam, but kept the unref'd passage right after it discussing the same actions by their North Vietnamese opponents. Such glaring inconsistency is disingenuous at the least and most likely much worse (as it follows your usual pattern). If you question the veracity of a certain claim then you should tag it as "dubious", however the mere fact that a ref is not located after a passage, does not grant an editor carte blanche ability to selectively and inconsistently chop up an article based off of their own personal bias. Such continued actions are going to result in another request for administrative oversight on your behavior (as occurred yesterday when someone else reported you to ANI).   Redthoreau (talk)RT 03:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are wrong, claims should not be "ideally be referenced", they must be referenced. A core policy WP:BURDEN explicity states that the burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. Attacks on other editors, which you seem seem to favor over adding references, do not make the content any more referenced.Luis Napoles (talk) 10:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced

message: I'm trying to sort it out over the next week or so.--86.25.11.99 (talk) 16:40, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The big fix

message: CIA is a prime example of a death squad. they are worse than nazi's  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.220.164 (talk) 03:04, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In US 

message: Since this same quote exists on Dennis_C._Blair, please see the discussion there: Talk:Dennis_C._Blair#Accuracy_of_quote_.22Being_a_U.S._citizen_will_not_spare_an_American_from_getting_assassinated_by_military_or_intelligence_operatives.22
Surlyhacker (talk) 22:04, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with your research, and I have corrected the quote. --NilsTycho (talk) 22:59, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of quote "Being a U.S. citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives" 

message: Let's be fair here. To say that Death Squads are "active" in Ivory Coast and then give links to articles that invariably condemn the same person without proofs is irresponsible. 
For example, this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Squads#cite_note-washingtonpost.com-19 leads to an article talking about "allegations", no proofs. 
I am not saying that people were not killed during the civil war. I am saying, let's have proofs before pointing fingers. Most of the links lewad to articles accusing the Leader of the FPI group at the Ivory Coast National Assembly, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, to organise killing squads.  
Where are the proofs?
Most articles present Simone Gbagbo as influencing the politics of her husband President Laurent Gbagbo. True. She is leader of his political party group at the National Assembly. She was not appointed by him. She was actually elected before the FPI, won the 2000 elections against a military dictator, General Guei Robert. That guy had killing squads!
What are we talking about here...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbanani77 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivory Coast 

message: u.s sponsoring death squads in syria now  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 987987987D (talk • contribs) 17:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  syria 

message: :Nguyễn Văn Lém (referred to as Captain Bay Lop) (died 1 February 1968 in Saigon) was a member of the Viet Cong who was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The picture of his death would became one of many an anti-Vietnam War icons in the Western World.[36]
This is not a death squad; this execution was made by a member of the police working in that condition and in an open way.
:Bolivia
:
:Similarly to Tupac Amaru's rebellion, Tupac Katari lead similar rebellion against the oppressive Spanish regime in the nations capital of La Paz, Bolivia. Tupac Katari was able to rally up 40,000 indigenous Aymara to lay siege to the city of La Paz which was built in place of the Aymara city of Chuqiago Marka. The siege failed and resulted in thousands of lost lives and millions of spirits crushed. Tupac Katari was later captured and killed by the Spanish government.
This does not seem to have anything to do with the concept of "death squad"
:Cambodia
:Main article: Khmer Rouge
:
:The Khmer Rouge began employing death squads to purge Cambodia of non-communists after taking over the country in 1975 . They rounded up their victims, questioned them and then took them out to killing fields.[75] The rebels, led by Bun Yom, rescued many thousands of Cambodian people. The rebels also captured thousands of Khmer Rouge soldiers, which they traded to the Thai government for food and munitions.[76]
The Khmer Rouge massacres were made in a open way, not by semi-secret groups working outside the law
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:Vietnam
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:The South Vietnamese warlords regularly ordered their soldiers to 'punish' the villages if they did something that was undesirable to them.
I never heard of "warlords" in south Vietnam; but, even if this is true, i am unsuer if this count as "death squad" (unless we adopt a definition of death squad so broad that any repressive government forces counts as "death squad")
:Yugoslavia
:Main article: Srebrenica Massacre
:
:The Srebrenica Massacre, also known as the Srebrenica Genocide,[108][109][110][111] was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, as well as the ethnic cleansing of 25,000–30,000 refugees in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War. In addition to the VRS, a paramilitary unit from Serbia known as the Scorpions participated in the massacre.[112][113]
:
:In Potočari, some of the executions were carried out at night under arc lights, and industrial bulldozers then pushed the bodies into mass graves.[114] According to evidence collected from Bosniaks by French policeman Jean-René Ruez, some were buried alive; he also heard testimony describing Serb forces killing and torturing refugees at will, streets littered with corpses, people committing suicide to avoid having their noses, lips and ears chopped off, and adults being forced to watch the soldiers kill their children.[114]
:
:The Srebrenica massacre is the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II.[115] In 2004, in a unanimous ruling on the "Prosecutor v. Krstić" case, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) located in The Hague ruled that the Srebrenica massacre was genocide.[116]
Again, I think that this is not a "death squad" in action - it is a massacre by an organized military force--81.84.51.200 (talk) 16:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong examples 

message: There is alot of details regarding death squads in Iraq and Latin America. However there really needs to be much more information in places where Death Sqaads or general mass murder was more prominent but highly under reported compared to the previous examples.
Countries where there need to be expansion would be regarding:
Mengistu during red terror (500,000 dead)
MPLA in Angola (70,000+ dead)
Mao, Lenin and Stalin's regimes (Millions dead)
Vietcong, North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao terror (1,000,000+)
FLN in Algeria (100,000+)
Other African countries such as both Congos, Rwanda, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Chad and Mozambique  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.168.119.251 (talk) 14:23, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: I removed the section on the Red Guards, as they're not commonly - if ever - described as "death squads", even by sources that condemn their actions (of which there are many). The citation was to a general work that is not specifically about China, let alone the Cultural Revolution. Moreover, I couldn't find the term "death squad" in the book cited (although I may have missed it). Unless the Red Guards are generally thought to be death squads in the scholarly literature, then I don't think it is right to include them here. Despite their uniforms, they weren't a paramilitary outfit and they didn't have orders. Describing them as death squads I think borders on original research (WP:NOR). I know edits regarding the PRC are always controversial, so I've tried to explain myself in as neutral terms as possible here.  Retinalsummer (talk) 01:25, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Red Guards

message: I am amazed reading this article. So much has been published regarding US and NATO funding of death squads. Recently, death squads tied to the US and its allies including Saudi Arabia created crisis in Syria pretty much single handedly. This fact has been reported by numbers of news outlets
This article comes nowhere close to helping anyone grasp why death squads come into being and why their majority stakeholders fund, arm, train and direct them.
Prose and supporting source selections are highly biased. This article needs balance.
Cheryl Hugle (talk) 09:39, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extremely biased article 

message: The headings with the country flags look very professional, and impressed me actually, it should be used on more pages when possible. 99.58.9.214 (talk) 02:15, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment from an anonymous reader of Wikipedia 

message: Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the former Russian Empire spent 73 years as a one party state ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Especially between 1917 and 1953, the CPSU routinely ordered the abduction, torture, and execution of massive numbers of real and suspected anti-communists. Those with upper class origins were routinely targeted in this way during the early years of the Soviet Union.
During the Red Terror, Soviet Premier Vladimir Lenin ordered the CHEKA and the Red Guards to execute without trial members of the House of Romanov, the Russian nobility, captured White Army officers and men, and supporters of the Russian Provisional Government. As part of war communism, Left-wing insurgencies like the Kronstadt Uprising, the Tambov Rebellion were also answered by mass executions, as were striking workers.
Following Lenin's strokes in 1922, the new Party leadership began a mass purge of clergy and religiously active Soviet citizens, including Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists. Show trials were conducted, after which the victims were shot once, in the back of the head. Prominent victims of this were Monsignor Konstantin Budkevich and Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd.
This was followed by arrests and executions of kulaks—a derogatory term for prosperous peasants and those who did not wish to surrender their private farms plots. After the Party's new Premier, Joseph Stalin, decreed the cancellation of Lenin's state-capitalist New Economic Policy in 1927, began executing and imprisoning NEPmen, private business owners who had grown wealthy with the Party's permission.
During the Great Purge (1936–39), the CPSU under Joseph Stalin used the secret police, the NKVD, to abduct, torture, and execute large numbers of suspected political opponents. This involved a large-scale purge of senior Communist Party officials like Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, and scores of other Old Bolsheviks. The Red Army leadership was also purged of tens of thousands of officers and men, which severely weakened the Soviet defense infrastructure. Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and military genius has traditionally been regarded as an irreplaceable loss. This was accompanied by the mass execution of intellectuals like Isaak Babel. The Great Purge was chacterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.[122] In Russian historiography the period of the most intense purge, 1937–1938, is called Yezhovshchina (ежовщина; literally, the Yezhov regime), after NKVD head Nikolai Yezhov.
Also during the interwar period, the NKVD routinely targeted anti-Stalinists in the West for abduction or murder. Among them were the CPSU's former Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky, who was assassinated by NKVD officer Ramon Mercador in Mexico City. Furthermore, former White Army Generals Alexander Kutepov and Evgeny Miller were abducted in Paris by the NKVD. Kutepov is alleged to have had a heart attack before he could be smuggled back to Moscow, and shot. General Miller was not so fortunate and died in Moscow's Lubianka Prison. Yevhen Konovalets, the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was blown to bits by NKVD officer Pavel Sudoplatov in Rotterdam on 23 May 1938.
In the post-war period, the Russian Orthodox Church collaborated with the Soviet State in a campaign to eliminate Eastern Rite Catholicism in the newly annexed regions of Soviet-ruled Ukraine.[123] Priests and laity who refused to convert to Orthodoxy were either assassinated or deported to the GULAGs at Karaganda.[124] On 27 October 1947, the KGB staged a car accident in order to assassinate the Greek-Catholic Bishop Theodore Romzha of Mukachevo.[125] When the "accident" failed to kill the Bishop, the KGB poisoned him in his hospital bed on 1 November 1947.[126]
Even in post-Stalin era, the Soviet secret police continued to assassinate anti-communists in the West. Two of the most notable victims were Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalists who were assassinated by the KGB in Munich, West Germany. Both deaths were believed accidental until 1961, when their murderer, Bohdan Stashynsky, defected to the West with his wife and voluntarily surrendered to West German prosecution.
During the Soviet-Afghan War, Soviet security forces engaged in mass slaughter of Afghan Islamist rebels and many civilians. The war, however, ended with the withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Afghanistan followed soon after by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.[citation needed]
Almost nothing of the above count as "death squad"; remember, a "death squad" is not simply a government killing people from the opposition, is doing that in an covert way, and using "irregular" forces; most of the above is open repression - the only exemplas of  death squad action that I see are:
"Also during the interwar period, the NKVD routinely targeted anti-Stalinists in the West for abduction or murder. Among them were the CPSU's former Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky, who was assassinated by NKVD officer Ramon Mercador in Mexico City. Furthermore, former White Army Generals Alexander Kutepov and Evgeny Miller were abducted in Paris by the NKVD. Kutepov is alleged to have had a heart attack before he could be smuggled back to Moscow, and shot. General Miller was not so fortunate and died in Moscow's Lubianka Prison. Yevhen Konovalets, the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was blown to bits by NKVD officer Pavel Sudoplatov in Rotterdam on 23 May 1938.
In the post-war period, the Russian Orthodox Church collaborated with the Soviet State in a campaign to eliminate Eastern Rite Catholicism in the newly annexed regions of Soviet-ruled Ukraine.[123] Priests and laity who refused to convert to Orthodoxy were either assassinated or deported to the GULAGs at Karaganda.[124] On 27 October 1947, the KGB staged a car accident in order to assassinate the Greek-Catholic Bishop Theodore Romzha of Mukachevo.[125] When the "accident" failed to kill the Bishop, the KGB poisoned him in his hospital bed on 1 November 1947.[126]
Even in post-Stalin era, the Soviet secret police continued to assassinate anti-communists in the West. Two of the most notable victims were Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalists who were assassinated by the KGB in Munich, West Germany. Both deaths were believed accidental until 1961, when their murderer, Bohdan Stashynsky, defected to the West with his wife and voluntarily surrendered to West German prosecution."
--MiguelMadeira (talk) 21:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet Union 

message: Cuba had/(has?) death squads.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.187.216.93 (talk) 04:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No; at least the cited article is about "anti-Castro Cuban terrorists"; yes, they called them "death squads", but usually "death squad" is used with the meaning of pro-government terrorists, when in these case they are pro-opposition terrorists--MiguelMadeira (talk) 13:41, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuba? 

message: I think that UNAMIR commander Romeo Dallaire refers to the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi militias that were active during the genocide in Rwanda as death squads. Should they be included in the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.126.135.229 (talk) 22:18, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Rwanda

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message: Just a thought. Is it just me, or do neither the uniforms nor the weapons visible in the picture look very "German"? --77.5.218.189 (talk) 20:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: They are police in 1942, not an EG in 1941.Xx236 (talk) 06:14, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
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message: A new contributor, , added this paragraph, with what look like some good references.
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: In the early 21st Century, American police departments underwent a process of hyper-militarization as part of the Homeland Security Act.  As a result of this proliferation of military equipment and more aggressive training, American police officers have carried out numerous extrajudicial killings on an ad hoc basis. 
Another new contributor, , removed that paragraph, with the edit summary "This recently added paragraph does not fit the definition as provided in the first paragraph of the wiki entry."
While it IS a controversial paragraph, I do not agree with the conclusion in the edit summary.  I think cops who kill suspects, when they should reasonably have apprehended them without injury, do meet the definition of extrajudicial killing.  
I think something like this paragraph does merit inclusion, provided the connection between post-911 militarization is explicitly backed up by RS.  Geo Swan (talk) 19:35, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please review WP:SYNTH. You need sources that explicitly describe a group as a death squad. --RaiderAspect (talk) 08:04, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

text: I've reinstated these edits and would ask the community to debate the topic here, rather than simply remove the paragraph, as originally suggested by  Originalgandalf (talk) 20:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not reinstate edits that fail verification without consensus per WP:BRD. As none of your sources use the term "death squad," your edit is an inappropriate violation of Wikipedia's content policies, specifically WP:OR/WP:SYNTH, as previously noted by . Pretending not to hear the concerns of other editors and simply ignoring the relevant policies is unacceptable behavior for a collaborative project. Unless you are able to provide new sources that explicitly substantiate your contested revision (and its relevance to this topic), there really is nothing to discuss, as WP:OR/WP:SYNTH are non-negotiable.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 00:18, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
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message: It is surprising to me that there seem to be absolutely no pictures of death squads from the Cambodian genocide or newer. A lot of the pictures on this article are many decades old and are black and white. Death squads are not just a thing of the past, and some newer, up to date, color images would be welcome in this article. I could not find nearly anything from the Cambodian genocide, Rwandan genocide, or any number of the more recent conflicts. If anyone finds any, it would be great to add those images to this article in their most relevant locations. Iljhgtn (talk) 15:29, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cambodian Genocide