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Sir Roger David Casement (September 1, 1864 - August 3, 1916) was a British diplomat by profession and a poet, Irish revolutionary and nationalist by inclination. He is famous for his activities against abuses of the colonial system in Africa and in Peru, but more well known for his dealings with Germany prior to Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916.
Casement in Africa Casement went in Africa for the first time in 1883, at the age of only nineteen, working in Congo for several companies and for King Leopold II of Belgium's Association Internationale Africaine. He had the occasion of knowing the famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley during his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and he become acquainted with the young Joseph Conrad (at the time still not a writer but just a sea-captain).
In 1892 Roger Casement quit Congo to join the Colonial Office in Nigeria. In 1895 he became consul at Lourenço Marques (Maputo nowaday).
In 1900 he was back in Congo, at Matadi, to found the first British consular post in that country. He denounced the mistreatments of indigenous people and the catastrophic consequences of forced labour system in his dispatches at the Foreign Office. In 1903, after the House of Commons, pressed by humanitarian activists, had passed a resolution about Congo, Casement was charged to make an inquiry on the situation of the country. The result of his enquiry was his famous Congo Report. The Report was issued in 1904, after Casement had to struggle to prevent British government from keeping it secret, and it provoked a huge scandal. Soon before the issuing of the report, Casement met the journalist Edmund Dene Morel, who led the anti-Congolese campaign by members of the British Press. It was the beginning of a profound relationship of friendship, admiration and collaboration on the Congo issue. Casement, who could not openly participate in the campaign due to his diplomatic status, persuaded Morel to found the Congo Reform Association.
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