Roger Casement was a human rights journalist and Irish revolutionary who was executed in 1916 by the British state for treason after trying to acquire military aid for Irish Republicans before the Easter Rising. Casement's work in the first decade of the 20th century exposed imperialist atrocities in the Congo and Peru.

Casement began his career working for Henry Morton Stanley and the African International Association, a front for King Leopold II of Belgium in his efforts to colonize the Congo.

In 1890, Casement met author Joseph Conrad, who had come to the Congo to pilot a merchant ship. According to author Liesl Schillinger, both were inspired by the idea that "European colonisation would bring moral and social progress to the continent and free its inhabitants 'from slavery, paganism and other barbarities.' Each would soon learn the gravity of his error."

In 1904, Casement published the "Casement Report", which, via interviews with workers, overseers, and mercenaries, exposed the enslavement, mutilation, and torture of natives on the rubber plantations. The report caused an international scandal and led to the creation of various reform organizations in the West.

A few years later, Casement traveled to the Putumayo District in South America, where rubber was being harvested in the Amazon Basin, and exposed the treatment of indigenous people in Peru. Finding conditions just as inhumane as what he witnessed in the Congo, Casement interviewed both the Putumayo and men who had abused them, publishing his findings in a first-person narrative that again caused an international scandal.

In November, 1914 Casement helped form the Irish Volunteers. He traveled to both the United States and Germany to both promote the Irish nationalist cause and acquire aid for it.

In 1916, Casement was captured by the British government and charged with high treason after he attempted to acquire military aid from Germany to aid the Irish nationalist cause. During trial proceedings, the government secretly circulated alleged excerpts from Casement's journals, the "Black Diaries", which detailed sexual acts with other men. The authenticity of these documents is still debated today.

Casement was hanged at Pentonville Prison on August 3rd, 1916 at 51 years old.

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  • layla
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    2 years ago

    I know we love each other here and all but sometimes I see people forgetting Hex is still on the internet and people lie a lot on the internet

      • layla
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        2 years ago

        No single event, just something I've noticed over the past few months in particular

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Do you think we'll ever get mass doxxed by the fash? I feel like Hexbear is pretty obscure even as leftist platforms go.

          • layla
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            2 years ago

            mass doxxed by the fash

            Does this happen?

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              We doxx them. I expect they try to do the same to us. Though they seem to mostly go in for online harassment campaigns while Antifa goes after their jobs and exposes them to friends and family.

              • layla
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                2 years ago

                Do we doxx them?

                They doxxed users from here before, but it's the "mass" part I am unsure of

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      everyone should be lying here at least a little bit. it's good opsec.

      I know that's hard because honesty is a good thing and leftists are people who want to do good things, but it's an unfortunate consequence of the circumstances that necessitate opsec in the first place.

      And I'm not the sort of person at all who lies irl.

      • layla
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        2 years ago

        I agree but I more mean people doing something like this, but not jokingly

    • soft [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I don't think I've ever lied on any hexbear account :sadness:

      I'm too pure of heart for this world!

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I lie every time the topic of my username comes up

        Because I say it's my real name, and then I say it's not. One of those statements is true. :swole-doge:

        • soft [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          My name isn't soft but I am pretty soft so I don't consider it a lie!