Roger Casement

Quotes

• “On Sunday evening, natives brought me a mutilated lad, who's right hand had been hacked of quite recently, the cold thread was a century of lalu longa, a Belgian trading society, when i asked why they had not appealed to their commissar, i heard from them, well it is the commissar, it is the Bula Matari, who does these things to us.”
• “In 1887 i spend several months on the upper Congo, and i traveled over some of the grounds i now revisit in the absence of 10 years, the country was thickly populated, frequent and populous towns, but many of the inhabitants have been killed by the government, man and woman.”
• “Of the persistent mutilation by government soldiers, there can be no shadow of a doubt, should the system maintain forced labor on this scale, i believe the entire population will be extinct in thirty years.”
• “Infamous, infamous shameful system.”
• “When up in those lonely Congo forests where I found Leopold I also found myself – the incorrigible Irishman.”
• “Tackling Leopold in Africa has set in motion a big movement – it must be a movement of human liberation all the world over.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1864-09-01 ) 1 September 1864, Sandycove , County Dublin, Ireland

Died

3 August 1916 (1916-08-03) (aged 51), Pentonville Prison , London, England

Cause of death

Execution by hanging

Monuments

Casement Monument at Ballyheigue Beach Roger Casement Statue at Dún Laoghaire Baths

Citizenship

British subject

Occupations

Diplomat, poet, humanitarian activist

Organisation

British Foreign Office

Title

a knighthood for his efforts on behalf of the Amazonian Indians, having been appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905 for his Congo work.

Movement

Irish nationalism Anti-imperialism

Parents

Roger Casement (father) Anne Jephson (mother)

Buried

Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin

Allegiance

Irish Republic

Branch

Irish Volunteers

Service years

1913-1916

Memorials

Tralee Casement railway station Casement Aerodrome

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Wikidata facts

Image

Portrait of Roger Casement P557.jpg

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