The Parsley Massacre [also referred to as El Corte (the cutting) by Dominicans and as Kouto-a (the knife) by Haitians] is a government-sponsored genocide in October 1937, at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo who orders the execution of the Haitian population living in the borderlands with Haiti.
The violence results in the killing of 20,000 ethnic Haitian civilians during approximately five days.
