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![]() ![]() ![]() In April 1916, Casement was dropped off in County Kerry by a U-boat and arrested. After helping to found the Irish Volunteers, he went fundraising in the US and tried to persuade Germany, by then at war with England, to help create an independent Ireland. Having cemented his establishment credentials by being knighted for his efforts in 1911, Casement eventually retired from diplomacy and dedicated himself to the Irish nationalist cause. After the publication of his findings, the British board of the company resigned. His report on the atrocities he witnessed contributed to Leopold II of Belgium's relinquishment of his colonial fiefdom.Ī few years later, he travelled to Iquitos in northern Peru, from where he embarked on a similar investigation into the treatment of the Putumayo Indians by the Peruvian Amazon Company. ![]() Born in Dublin to a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother, he went on to become British consul in the Congo, where he was commissioned by the British government to examine forced labour in the Congo Free State. ![]()
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