1.hallinnon suorittama hyökkäys kapinallisia vastaan, jolle ovat ominaisia sieppaukset, kidutus ja murhat
1.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; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"