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Noun: United Self-Defense Force of Colombia
  1. A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members
    "the United Self-Defense Force of Colombia conducted over 800 assassinations in one year";
    - United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, United Self-Defense Group of Colombia, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

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