Claire's Brother
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So Haitians had to pay for the cedula and a foreign residency permit.
essentially ending the binational lifestyle of communities on the border, according to More Than a Massacre.
If the U.S.
started the border, then Trujillo marked it as a sign of utter violence by ordering his troops to ethnically cleanse the Dominican border of Haitians in October of 1947.
This was known as the Parsley Massacre, and estimates of people killed vary, but the most common number I've seen used is roughly 20,000 Haitians killed over the course of about a week to two weeks.
And this massacre, of course, came about as a way for him to define the border by stripping Haitians of that land because it was mostly done inside of the Dominican side of the Haiti border.
It's called the Parsley Massacre because soldiers reportedly recognize Haitians by their inability to pronounce parsley in Spanish, perejil.
However, experts think that this was just a myth, another way to separate Haitians from Dominicans, according to More Than a Massacre.
Also, as a not-so-fun fact, a lot of the violence took place along the Massacre River, which a lot of people think is called that because of the 1947 massacre.
But from the various Spanish-language sources I've read, they all essentially say that this isn't true, that it's called the Massacre River.
because of the frequent violence that took place there between Spanish colonizers and French buccaneers in the 18th century.
And this is according to an article by Simón Rodríguez in NACLA titled Dominican Republic and Haiti at the Crossroads of the Massacre River.
The Dominican Immigration Agency, the DGM, was also established by Trujillo just two years after the Parsley Massacre.
Not only were they essential to deporting Haitians during Trujillo's reign, but they also forced the Haitian population into the sugar-producing regions of the country.
And because he couldn't deploy overt state violence there in the same way that he did along the border, they came up with a new plan.
Any Haitian immigrant detained in the area would just be brought back to whatever sugar plantation would pay their immigration taxes, essentially creating these zones, which still very much exist to this day, of Haitians living in and around these sugar plantations that they also work at.
I should say that this wasn't a codified policy, but that it coexisted with other tactics throughout the years.
Yeah.
The Trujillo government also instituted a policy that made all Haitians who owned land or businesses
to not be able to work outside of the sugar-producing regions, according to a journal article titled A Veil of Legality by Amelia Hinson.
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