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Roger Casement
Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
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Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), 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.
In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service.
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🇬🇧 Architect of the Easter Rising, hanged as a traitor: for Roger Casement, a pardon still seems far away | Rory Carroll<p>Relations with Britain have improved again since Brexit, but battles over Irish history remain visible in Stormont’s endless feuding</p><ul><li><p>...
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🇬🇧 A Rebel and a Traitor by Rory Carroll review – the extraordinary story of Roger Casement<p>A journalist tells the improbable tale of a British diplomat who worked to free Ireland – and paid the ultimate price</p><p>Roger Casement had a li...
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