https://freerepublic.com/tag/casement/ en-us Tue, 3 Aug 2021 19:44:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3981746/posts On this date in 1916, Roger Casement was hanged for treason by the British crown that had knighted him only a few years before. Casement died for his part in the Easter Rising, but this Irish nationalist hero’s layered story has long made him a very different sort of cultural marker than, say, James Connolly. Casement came to public prominence for his damning report on Belgium’s atrocious treatment of natives in its Congo colony, e.g.: [T]he great decrease in population, the dirty and ill-kept towns, and the complete absence of goats, sheep, or fowls — once very plentiful in this... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3981746/posts#comment Tue, 3 Aug 2021 19:44:54 GMT