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

Behind the Bastards

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The Parsley Massacre in Haiti

The main phase of the killing lasts roughly a week. Soldiers will go door to door or when they're doing checkpoints, they'll hold up a piece of parsley and they'll ask the people to what is this called? And if they pronounce it the way Haitians pronounce it, they'll kill them,. They'll beat them to death, they'll shoot them. The high estimate is 30,000 or so 20, 25,000 is probably a pretty realistic death toll.

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