The Parsley Massacre: that marked Haiti-Dominican Republic ties

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

It earned the name the Parsley Massacre because Dominican soldiers carried a sprig of parsley and would ask people suspected of being Haitian to pronounce the Spanish word for it: "perejil". Those whose first language was Haitian Creole found it difficult to say it correctly, a mistake that could cost them their lives. Massacre ...