Rio Dajabon, aka “Rio Massacre” or “Massacre River”, at one of the border crossing between Haití and The Dominican Republic. An estimated 12,000-35,000 Haitians were killed along this river in 1937 on the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. This event became known as the “Parsley Massacre”. It’s said that the Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask what it was. How the person pronounced the Spanish word for Parsley, “Perejil”, determined their fate. If they pronounced it the Spanish way, the soldiers considered them Dominican and let them live, but if they pronounced it the French or Creole way they were considered Haitian and therefore executed.