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Roger Casement
1864–1916
A British diplomat turned humanitarian investigator and Irish nationalist, he became famous for exposing abuses in the Congo and the Putumayo rubber trade. His dramatic final years, ending with execution for treason in 1916, made him one of the most debated figures of his time.
3 Audiobooks
The Crime Against Europe: A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914
by Roger Casement
![Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence]](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c287972dc5c80ef6b5c6/cover.jpg)
Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence]
by Roger Casement
Some Poems of Roger Casement
by Roger Casement
About the author
Born near Dublin in 1864, Roger Casement first built a career in the British consular service. While working abroad, he became widely known for documenting atrocities in the Congo Free State and later in the Amazon region of Peru, work that helped establish his reputation as a fearless investigator of human suffering.
His public standing grew so much that he was knighted in 1911. But Casement's politics changed sharply over time, and he became deeply committed to Irish nationalism, eventually seeking support for Irish independence during the First World War.
He was arrested after returning to Ireland in 1916, tried for treason in London, and executed that same year. Because his life joined humanitarian campaigning, imperial service, and revolutionary politics, he remains a striking and complicated figure in Irish and international history.