South America: Horrific Treatment Of Amazon Indians Exposed 100 Years Ago Today

South America: Horrific Treatment Of Amazon Indians Exposed 100 Years Ago Today   30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today.   Casement was sent by the British government to investigate crimes committed by British-registered rubber giant, the Peruvian Amazon Company. He found, ‘The crimes charged against many men now in the employ of...

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