In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-Rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River.
In 1912, Casement\'s seven-hundred-page report of the Putuma.
Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly thirty thousand Indians had died to produce four thousand tons of rubber for Peruvian and British commercial interests, under the brutal rubber baron Julio C sar Arana.
In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-Rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River