More little known history to me, this guy was made a Knight of the British Empire, he reported on human rights abuses in Congo and Peru in fact. Complex story, the British Empire ended up putting him to death for participating in acts against the Empire, mainly gun-running it seems. A lot of details.
The last of the Easter Rising rebels was executed in Britain on this day in 1916
Dermot McEvoy @IrishCentral August 03, 2018
Roger Casement: "It is a braver, a saner, and a truer thing to be a rebel...than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men."RTÉ
Executed on this day, August 3, 1916, for his role as an Easter Rising rebel, Sir Roger Casement had received a knighthood just five days previous.
Roger Casement was born into a Protestant family in Sandycove, County Dublin, on September 1, 1864. Educated in Ballymena, County Antrim, he left school at 16 and went to work for a shipping firm in Liverpool.
In 1884 Casement went to Africa to work for the African International Association where he learned firsthand what European colonization was perpetuating on the inhabitants of the Dark Continent. He eventually went to work for the British Colonial Service before transferring to the British Foreign Office in 1901.
While in the consular service he witnessed many atrocities connected with the rubber trade in the Congo Free State, a colony under the control of King Leopold II of Belgium. In 1904 he was commissioned to write a report on these human rights violations, including slave labor and mutilations of the limbs of some of the natives. The Congo Report caused a sensation and brought Casement into the public spotlight.
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A guide to the key figures, facts, and moments of the 1916 Easter Risinghttps://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/historical-figures-events-1916-easter-risingWikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement
