Death squads in global perspective : murder with deniability / edited by Bruce B. Campbell and Arthur D. Brenner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-348) and index.

Death squads : definition, problems, and historical context / Bruce B. Campbell -- "To induce a sense of terror" : Caudillo politics and political violence in northern Nicaragua, 1926-34 and 1981-95 / Michael J. Schroeder -- Feme murder : paramilitary "self-justice" in Weimar Germany / Arthur D. Brenner -- Window on the past : a declassified history of death squads in El Salvador / Cynthia J. Arnson -- State of siege : political violence and vigilante mobilization in the Philippines / Eva-Lotta Hedman -- State terrorism and death squads in Uganda (1971-79) / Edward Kannyo -- From Petrus to ninja : death squads in Indonesia / Robert Cribb -- Modernity and devolution : the making of police death squads in modern Brazil / Martha K. Huggins -- The rise and fall of apartheid's death squads, 1969-93 / Keith Gottschalk -- India's secret armies / Patricia Gossman -- Territoriality and plausible deniability : Serbian paramilitaries in the Bosnian War / James Ron.