But the darkest legacy of these extrajudicial courts has been a string of honor killings.
The lopsided death toll immediately raised suspicions of extrajudicial executions.
The benefits of information monitoring, censorship and extrajudicial tactics, though disturbing, were arguably worth their price.
And his crackdown on drugs may have came at the cost of what human rights groups say were hundreds of extrajudicial killings.
Official estimates of 5,000 or more extrajudicial executions per year certainly understate the real death toll".
The waging of total war caused tens -- perhaps hundreds -- of thousands of civilian deaths; cost more than $1 trillion, increasing the deficit and adding to our economic strain; and included torture, extrajudicial killing and other illegal activities, undermining the United States' ability to credibly promote human rights and democracy.
From the outset of the battle between Boko Haram and the military, a dirty war on both sides that has cost nearly 4,000 lives since erupting in this city in 2009, security forces have been accused of extrajudicial killings and broad, often indiscriminate roundups of suspects and sympathizers in residential areas.
What cost General Barrero his job was the transcript of a phone conversation with a colonel facing charges for the extrajudicial killing of civilians.
"It's extrajudicial," he said.
Namely, is there something wrong with extrajudicial activity?
They are extrajudicial killings, and we do not support that".
