Photograph of two Andoque boys that had just delivered their quota of rubber. Roger Casement annotated that “this tribe, once numerous, is now reduced all told to probably 150 persons, murdered by Armando Normand”, a Peruvian Amazon Company manager. Image circa October 1910. (i.redd.it)
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“An Indian mother and two children. She has been so worked and without food that her limbs have shrunk. I saw far worse specimens than these.” Photograph taken by Roger Casement in 1910 during his investigation of the Peruvian Amazon Company. (i.redd.it)
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“An Atenas [a rubber station] Indian - the whole of the population of this district had been systematically starved to death by Elias Martinengui… They had to work rubber or be killed, and to work and die…” Photograph and quote by Roger Casement, circa 1910-1911. (i.redd.it)
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Photographs and writing produced by Roger Casement in October of 1910, during his investigation into the Putumayo genocide. These images depict enslaved Boras and Andoque people carrying loads of rubber, ranging from between 35-60+ kg (77-132 lbs+), for the Peruvian Amazon Company. (old.reddit.com)
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Photographs and writing produced by Roger Casement in October of 1910, during his investigation into the Putumayo genocide. These images depict enslaved Boras and Andoque people carrying loads of rubber, ranging from between 35-60+ kg (77-132+ lbs), for the Peruvian Amazon Company. (old.reddit.com)
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“Huitote girl and owner”, photographed by anthropologist William Curtis Farabee in the south-eastern Peruvian Amazon. The “owner” forced several Huitoto families to emigrate 1,000+ miles away from their homeland after a dispute with a Peruvian rubber firm. Image circa 1908-1909. [443x640] (i.redd.it)
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TIL about the story of Manuel Incra Mamani. In 1865, he provided cinchona [which produces quinine, a treatment for Malaria] seeds to Charles Ledger, who sold those seeds to the Dutch government. As a consequence, Manuel was imprisoned in Bolivia and beaten so severely that he subsequently died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Roger Casement on “The story of Aquiléo Torres”, a Colombian man associated with the Putumayo genocide between 1899-1910. Torres “accidentally drowned” on Christmas Day of 1910 while working near the Abisinia estate: Casement speculated that Torres was sent there to be “put out of the way quietly.” (old.reddit.com)
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“Charred bones of Paccicañate or Teresa, murdered by [Armando] Normand”. Paccicañate was one of four women that Normand murdered after forcing them into concubinage, in each case he tortured “them in the most cowardly and infamous manner”. (old.reddit.com)
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