Roger Casement
Historical Figure

Roger Casement

Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)

Born: 1864 CE · Died: 1916 CENationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

About Roger Casement

Roger David Casement, known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.Wikipedia ↗

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