Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo order to kill thousands of people just because the Haitians could not pronounce the word PEREJIL, because for them it was difficult to say it correctly. “A mistake that could cost their lives” (Nick Davis). The only thing Trujillo care about was to kill the Haitians, many people call this a systematic campaign of extermination. After the Haitians were killed they were thrown into the river called Massacre River, “it was the center of a killing field” (Ezra Fieser) It was called the Parsley Massacre because in some cases soldiers held a sprig of parsley and asked the victims to pronounce it in Spanish ( perejil). “Creole-speaking Haitians could be identified by their difficulty pronouncing the “R” in the word. They were killed if they could not say it correctly”.(Ezra Fieser)…show more content… when confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. If the person responded by trilling the "r" in perejil (Spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. Anyone who didn't trill the "r" was thought to be a Haitian Creole speaker — and was likely to be killed.”(Mark
