Sentence examples for killing squad from inspiring English sources

He fled to Turkey after hearing rumors that a plainclothes killing squad had entered the camp and was searching for him through olive groves and apple orchards.

Inside the cabin, his killing squad plays poker.

Members of his royal guard were part of the killing squad.

Muhammad said that activists in the camp had decided to leave when they saw the sniper nest on a hill and also when a rumor spread of a killing squad in the camp.

A Special Court in Dhaka has sentenced two former leaders of the al-Badr killing squad to death for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971.

The judges said in their ruling that the deaths were carried out by a "killing squad" associated with the pro-Pakistani Al-Badr militia, and that Mr. Mueen Uddin and Mr. Khan were important leaders in the group.

Hundreds of families have fled, and many fell victim to killing squads from both sides of the sectarian divide.

The Mungiki, a ferocious Kikuyu gang the government tried to eliminate with killing squads last year, has already been rehabilitated in some of Nairobi's slums.

Killing squads swept across the hillsides — until Kagame's rebel army stormed the capital, putting an end to the genocide and seizing power.

In areas where ammunition was in short supply, the killing squads relied on whatever weapons were at hand — axes, cleavers, even shovels.

While the justifications for these militias are "neighborhood self-defense" and the protection of religious sites, the shabiha emerged in a similar way before becoming killing squads for Mr. Assad.