TRUJILLO & THE MIRABAL SISTERS PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?
A
“Meanwhile, his own and his family’s share in the good times was exorbitant – by the 1950s, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world.”
B
“But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary.”
C
“In what became known as the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican troops raided both sides of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic and killed an estimated 20,000 – 30,000 Haitians.”
D
“The Mirabal sisters’ ‘Movement of the Fourteenth of June’ recruited about 300 Dominicans in all walks of life who secretly distributed pamphlets about the many crimes of Trujillo’s regime, and collected guns, firecrackers and other materials for explosives to be used against the dictator.”
E
Scores of countries did so, including the United States which closed its embassy and, according to Legacy of Ashes, finally took action to help the anti-Trujillo underground.
F
“In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly commemorated the death of the Mirabal sisters by designating the 25th of November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.”