Perejil and Two Cents

For five days in October, Dominican soldiers swept across the border with Haiti, and massacre between twenty and thirty thousand Haitians, most of whom were Dominican-born. Many were misled to believe they were being deported, and were trucked out to the middle of nowhere and executed.
It is said the soldiers would go to some people with a sprig of parsley and ask them what it was, killing them if they could not pronounce the Spanish word "perejil" correctly. In the end, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Haitian President Stenio Vincent sought reparations of $750,000, of which $525,000 (US$ 8,487,500 in 2012) was paid; of this 30 dollars per victim, only 2 cents were given to survivors, due to corruption in the Haitian bureaucracy.