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1937-10-02

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

1937-Oct.: The Parsley Massacre occurs as Dominican dictator Trujillo orders the slaughter of thousands of Haitians living in the borderlands. He justified this ethnic cleansing by claiming it was necessary to “de-Africanize” the frontier and protect European culture.

Source  ·  p. 167 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 167