Sluka 4: "[T]he proliferation of state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings, 'disappearances,' and death squads have also been a hallmark of the massive growth of state terror in the last quarter of the twentieth century (Amnesty International 1992). Death squads have become one of the most noteworthy aspects of contemporary, primarily right-wing, state terror. During the 1960s and 1970s, death squads emerged in at least ten states in Latin America alone, and like torture and disappearances conducted by regular state forces, also spread steadily through the Third World in the 1980s and 1990s."