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Part Two: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards

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The Haitian Genocide

Haitian author Jack Alexis later wrote about the massacre. "This is one of the most physically brutal acts of mass killing that I've ever read about," he says. A lot of Dominican civilians hide and try to protect, because these are their neighbors. The dictator is part Haitian, right? Do the people who hide them get killed too? Sometimes yes.

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