Module 2: “Remembering To Never Forget” by Mark Memmott

Seventy five years ago, thousands of Haitians were murdered in the Dominican Republic by a brutal dictator.

It was one of the 20th Century's least-remembered acts of genocide.

This week, people from around the world are expected to gather in the Dominican Republic for a "Border of Lights" commemoration that aims to "honor a tragedy long forgotten, and unknown to many people."

Writer and Middlebury College professor Julia Alvarez, the daughter of Dominicans and someone who lived there as a child, said on Tell Me More today that the killings must be acknowledged and testified to.

Trujillo, as the Border of Lights website explains, fed and nurtured anti-Haitian sentiment and created an atmosphere that still excludes ethnic Haitians from becoming part of "the Dominican melting pot."

Trujillo, as the Border of Lights website explains, fed and nurtured anti-Haitian sentiment and created an atmosphere that still excludes ethnic Haitians from becoming part of "the Dominican melting pot."

Trujillo, as the Border of Lights website explains, fed and nurtured anti-Haitian sentiment and created an atmosphere that still excludes ethnic Haitians from becoming part of "the Dominican melting pot."

When confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was.

Anyone who didn't trill the "r" was thought to be a Haitian Creole speaker—and was likely to be killed.

Danticat's book The Farming of Bones tells the terrible tale of the 1937 massacre "through the eyes of a young domestic servant."