OPEN RESEARCH WEEK: Revisiting Roger Casement in the Amazon

From 1907 to 1913, the UK funded Peruvian Amazon Company operated at the height of the rubber boom on land now belonging to Colombia. In 1911, an Ireland born British diplomat called Roger Casement wrote a report so damning, that the company was called in front of UK Parliament for committing genocide against an estimated 60,000 Indigenous Peoples and subsequently liquidated.