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Why was the purge of Haitians in the Dominican Republic called the parsley massacre?

In 1937, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo, ordered a purge of the Haitian population that lived in the border area between the two states, which went down in history as the "parsley massacre." The total number of victims was, according to various estimates, from 5 to 25 thousand people. The action owes its name to one of the ways in which the Dominican soldiers separated the Haitians from their compatriots. They would show the person a sprig of parsley (perejil in Spanish) and ask what it was. The Dominicans, who have spoken Spanish since childhood, pronounced the second consonant as "p", but the French and Creole-speaking Haitians pronounced the same sound as "l", which immediately gave themselves away.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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