TY - BOOK AU - Casement,Roger TI - Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] AV - DT PY - 2015/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Rubber industry and trade -- Congo (Democratic Republic) N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casement_Report; Release date is 2015-11-29; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the..." by Roger Casement is a diplomatic report published in 1904. Commissioned by the British Government, this document exposes systematic abuses in King Leopold II's privately owned Congo Free State. Casement's forty-page investigation, supplemented by harrowing eyewitness testimonies of killings, mutilations, and beatings, would prove instrumental in stripping Leopold of his African holdings. The report emerged amid growing international scrutiny and helped fuel the Congo Reform Association's campaign against exploitation in the region. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50573 ER -