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The French version of the river, "Rivière du Massacre" (River of Massacre), refers to a battle in 1728 where Spanish settlers killed thirty French buccaneers near the river. [2] [3] This name became popular after being the site of many killings during the Parsley Massacre—though the event was not, contrary to popular belief, the origin of ...
This river is also known as the Massacre River due to an incident that took place in 1728 in which Spanish settlers killed 30 French Buccaneers. [4] The name also became popular after being the site of the Parsley massacre in 1937, when thousands of Haitians were killed by the Dominican Army under the orders of Rafael Trujillo. [5]
The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Extending from the Caribbean Sea in the south to the Atlantic Ocean in the north, the 391 kilometres (243 mi) border was agreed upon in the 1929 Dominican–Haitian border treaty .
The possible water war has repercussions beyond northern Haiti, where the Massacre River straddles the Dominican city of Dajabón and the Haitian city of Ouanaminthe and was the site of the ...
Long a source of conflict between the two contentious neighbors, the Massacre River in northeastern Haiti was the site of a 1937 massacre of thousands of Haitians by Dominican dictator Rafael ...
The diplomatic crisis began earlier this month when workers in Haiti resumed construction of a canal near the Massacre River that runs along the border, to help alleviate a drought that hit Haiti ...
The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; [5] Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing" [6]) (French: Massacre du Persil; Spanish: Masacre del Perejil; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in illegal settlements [7] and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.
The Dominican Republic sealed its border with Haiti last month citing the construction of a canal from the Massacre River, which straddles the border between the two countries, arguing this ...