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1937-10-02

1937-Oct.: The Parsley Massacre: Dominican dictator Trujillo orders the slaughter of thousands of Haitians in the borderlands.

1937-Oct.: The Parsley Massacre: Dominican dictator Trujillo orders the slaughter of thousands of Haitians in the borderlands. This act of ethnic cleansing permanently scarred the relationship between the two nations sharing the island.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 102; Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation, 118; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 102