The word "vigilante" is correct and usable in written English
Generally, it is used to refer to a person who takes the law into their own hands and punishes wrongdoers without legal authority. For example, you could say, "The townspeople formed a vigilante group to defend their community from criminals."
The Myall Creek Massacre, as it came to be known, was not the first of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such crimes that unfolded across the colonial frontier between the first inhabitants, soldiers, settlers, vigilante groups and Indigenous "black police".
A vigilante leader in Borno, Danlami Ajaokuta, whose civilian fighters have been working with the military in the region to fight Boko Haram, said security forces had ordered the closure of all businesses in the city given the apparently coordinated nature of the bombings and the fear there could be more.
Last week the new Nationalist party was formed, combining football hooligans, ultranationalists and skinheads, while another faction announced the creation of vigilante groups.
Over the past two years, self-styled vigilante groups have sprung up across the states of Guerrero and Michoacán in response the government's apparent inability to rein in the organised crime which has turned parts of both states into killing fields.
As well as vigilante violence, they are also scared of negative reactions from family and friends.
Estimates of the number of Indigenous Australians killed by British troops, settlers, vigilante groups and "black police" vary from a conservative 20,000 to many multiples thereof.
On Wednesday – nearly a week after the vigilante withdrawal – the federal police commissioner, Enrique Galindo, flew to Chilapa to meet with relatives of the disappeared.
The majority of attacks and violent incidents involve loyalists portraying themselves as an alternative vigilante police force in Protestant working-class areas carrying out summary "justice" against those accused of antisocial activities.
"Local vigilante groups passed on the first information to the military at around 7pm.
A Palestinian teenager was burned to death in Jerusalem in a vigilante revenge killing.
A volunteer in the national vigilante association, Mungo Park says the local force is about 300 strong.
