1.   Many guards are members of the death squads and openly discuss their activities in loud voices.

2.   Reformists allege that the killings were part of a campaign by state-sponsored death squads to silence dissent.

3.   The death squad published a statement claiming they would cut off the head of every Committee member.

4.   This old man had already lost two sons-both journalists-to death squads.

5.   This was the group, formally under army control, that operated as a death squad during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos.

6.   Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads.

7.   Whole villages have been massacred by extremists and faceless death squads.

8.   Murders and kidnappings which were previously attributed to right-wing death squads are now thought to have been carried out by the army.

9.   Hundreds of summary executions by the security forces or death squads had also been recorded in Guatemala.

10.   The notorious Koevoet death squads are being incorporated into the local police force to help keep law and order during the UN elections, which is a joke.