Parsley Massacre

The Parsley Massacre, also referred to as El Corte (the cutting) in Spanish and as Kout kouto a (the knife blow) in Creole, was a genocidal massacre carried out in fall of 1937 against the Haitian population living in the borderlands of the Dominican Republic with Haiti at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. Estimates of the total number of deaths vary considerably and range from a low of 547 to a high of 12,166 (see table ).

Parsley Massacre

The Parsley Massacre, also referred to as El Corte (the cutting) in Spanish and as Kout kouto a (the knife blow) in Creole, was a genocidal massacre carried out in fall of 1937 against the Haitian population living in the borderlands of the Dominican Republic with Haiti at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. Estimates of the total number of deaths vary considerably and range from a low of 547 to a high of 12,166 (see table ).