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The Parsley Massacre
Ryan Allsop
Emily Ariessohn
Angelica Cespedes
Kimia Nouri
Ms. Adams
English 4 Period 3
27 March 2012
The Parsley Massacre
Genocide in the Dominican Republic
The Parsley Massacre, was a genocide of Hatians by Dominicans
The assult lasted 5 days,
October 3, 1937 - October 8,1937
Rafael Trujillo, president of the Dominican Republic led the genocide
20,000 - 30,000 People were killed
Trujillo's aim was to eliminate any Haitians living on the border of or in the Dominican Republic
Before
The Dominican Republic takes up two-thirds of the island of Hispanola, while Haiti only takes up one-third.
Native residents in the Dominican Republic did not appreciate the Haitians living on their land. Haiti became overpopulated, and began to migrate over the border. Haitians took jobs harvesting sugar cane making the Dominican residents uneasy, and unhappy.
During
President Truijillo then began a policy of “Dominicanizing” and strengthening the border. He created new provinces with the border towns as the provincial capitals (see the table below), built a string of military observation points along the border, and providing incentives for Dominicans to live in the border region.
To solve the “immigration problem,” Trujillo came up with a plan to eliminate Haitians. He ordered his soldiers to carry around parsley and ask; “What is this?” to all the people. Because Haitians could not roll their r’s, they would have difficulty or an inability to pronounce the Spanish word for parsley: perejil. Anyone who could not roll their 'Rs' were assumed to be Haitian and taken away to be executed.
The Massacre was an action to homogenize the furthest stretches of the country in order to bring the region into the social, political and economic fold and also to cleanse his republic of Haitians
After
The judgement standard had flaws, at least half of the executed were actual Dominicans brought up with a different language. $75,000 was paid by the DR government to the Haitian government to cover losses for the victims’ families, but most of the money never got to those families because of government corruption.