Also known as: Parsley Massacre, 1937 massacre, Trujillo massacre, 1937 Trujillo massacre
Last updated: April 26, 2026
In October 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the mass killing of ethnic Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans living in the frontier region of the Dominican Republic. Scholar Richard Turits argues the massacre was not the expression of pre-existing popular hatred but a deliberate state act that destroyed an older bicultural border world and intensified anti-Haitian ideology afterward. The diplomatic response was weak; U.S. officials helped contain the scandal rather than force accountability on Trujillo.
parsley-massacre — the historical event reconstructed in *The Farming of Bones*
parsley-massacre — massacre whose aftermath Balaguer helped justify
1937 Parsley Massacre
parsley-massacre — the historical event at the core of *Le Peuple des Terres Mêlées*
The Haitian-Dominican border created by the 1844 separation became the site of the 1937 Trujillo massacre
1937 Parsley Massacre
1937 Parsley Massacre
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