Sentences with phrase «death squad leaders»

The Act of Killing (Unrated) Macabre musical documentary in which Indonesian death squad leaders reenact real - life mass executions in a manner mimicking the classic Hollywood films they so admire.

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Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

One was the drug - trafficking leader of a South American death squad.

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about former leaders of Indonesian death squads isn't brilliant just because it sheds light on an oft - ignored chapter in history.

While SCL group claims to have rebranded Duterte as a «tough» candidate, he had already garnered a notorious reputation while serving seven terms as mayor of Davao City; the leader once admitted links to local «death squads,» who executed over a thousand people involved in the drug trade during Duterte's rule.