Word: haitians
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Blood at the Border. Negro Haiti and the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic are the worst of neighbors even in the best of times. In the early 1800s, the sport of Haitian rulers was slaughtering Dominicans; in the 1930s, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo methodically killed some 15,000 Haitian squatters on his land. Now Duvalier is getting in his licks. Dominican nationals in Haiti have been-jailed and savagely beaten; others have disappeared without a trace. One Dominican diplomat was murdered. The Haitian border has been closed to Dominicans for months, and there are persistent reports that members of the Trujillo...
...their one brief meeting with Haiti's dictator, Duvalier insisted on jabbering in Creole; the OAS team scarcely understood his words. Only under pressure did he agree to remove his guards from the Dominican embassy and grant safe-conduct out of the country for 15 of the Haitian asylees. Nothing would budge him on the other seven, who were moved to the Colombian embassy, and there were no promises about what would happen when the OAS team departed...
...largely self-educated Bosch left the Dominican Republic in 1937, disgusted with Trujillo after "The Benefactor" personally ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian squatters. With Cuba as a headquarters, Bosch organized his political party, traveled widely throughout Latin America as an unofficial emissary of the anti-Communist left...
...Haitians call Duvalier's private bully boys the Tonton Macoutes, which means "bogeymen" in Creole. They are paid as much as $30 a month (high pay by Haitian standards), plus whatever they can extort from merchants and businessmen. When Duvalier wants to hold a rally, the Macoutes use their muscle to organize the crowds, commandeer trucks to carry the rooters to the appointed place. When Duvalier wants the opposition squashed, the Macoutes do the job. Three weeks ago, one of the "vagrant law officers" halted a bus near the village of Gressier, 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince...
...blinded by the beatings, some deafened, some killed. Newspaper Editor Madame Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel was kidnaped from her home by Tonton Macoutes. She was taken to a local lovers' lane in St. Martin woods, beaten, raped, and mutilated. Says a foreign diplomat: "Duvalier's real contribution to Haitian history is government by gang. He is the king of the bogeymen...