He was convicted, and hanged on 3 August 1916. He was charged with high treason, and also accused of “homosexual practices” on the basis of an alleged “intimate journal” of disputed authenticity. In the first world war, espousing the principle that “England’s difficulties are Ireland’s opportunity”, he sought German support for the Irish independence movement. In another report, Casement revealed the terrible distress of Peru’s Amazonian Indians.Īs a pioneer human rights activist, Casement, who was born near Dublin, later joined the Irish Nationalists. As a British consul in Africa, he was the first to condemn, as early as 1908, the atrocities of Belgian colonialism in the Congo Free State King Leopold II had acquired the vast country and its inhabitants as personal property. Its hero, Roger Casement, 1864-1916, was an outstanding historical figure. Mario Vargas Llosa’s latest novel El Sueno del Celta (The Celt’s Dream) was released in Spanish-speaking countries in November, a month after he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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