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I think Julio Arana may claim the individual merit of having established and run for several years the biggest slave and murder pen in the world.

— Roger Casement

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Tackling Leopold in Africa has set in motion a big movement – it must be a movement of human liberation all the world over.

Against every member of the Company's higher staff, so far as I can see are not merely alleged, but have been sworn to and published in Iquitos.

When up in those lonely Congo forests where I found Leopold I also found myself – the incorrigible Irishman.

Roger Casement's grave in Glasnevin Cemetery. The capstone reads "Roger Casement, who died for the sake of Ireland, 3rd August 1916".

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.

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