Original: The violence resulted in the killing of 20,000 pg 78 - On October 2 , 1937 , Trujillo had ordered 20,000 Haitian cane workers executed because they could not roll the '' R '' in perejil the Spanish word for parsley .
Simplified: In October of 1937 , Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina ordered the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands with Haiti .