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This months marks the 80th anniversary of the massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, also known as the Parsley Massacre, under the dictator Rafael Trujillo. A conversation with Marlon Bishop for NPR. Click here to access the audio of the 1-hour podcast. LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We have a story now of a forgotten battle…
Up to 25,000 Haitian men, women and children had been murdered by Dominican soldiers and civilian conscripts. Some of them were shot, but most were beaten or hacked to death with swords and machetes.