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...egregiousness of Arana’s crimes is most bluntly expressed, though, in a single statistic from Casement’s report: between 1906 and 1911 the Indian population of the Putumayo region declined from 50,000 to 8,000. These deaths were not part of a systematic extermination campaign, but were the products of a deep vein of institutionalised violence symptomatic of colonial subjugation...
...Casement” succeeds in bringing the principal players of the story to life in brisk, unadorned prose, and with frequent recourse to historical sources. We cannot help but share Goodman’s obvious admiration for Casement, who had established his humanitarian credentials in 1903 with a report exposing the wholesale abuse of the native population—again, in the name of rubber production—of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium. “Wherever he went and whomever he met, Roger Casement rarely failed to make a deep, lasting, highly favourable...
...worrying lack of “civilization” in the Putumayo basin crops up repeatedly in Casement’s correspondence and in his 1912 report. Troublingly, though, Casement’s vocabulary goes unremarked upon by Goodman, who appears not to notice that Casement, at least in the early stages of his investigation, did not view Arana’s dealings in the Putumayo in opposition to some universal ethical standard, but to the imperial “mission civilisatrice.” Casement is dismayed, for example, that “there are no civilized authorities...
Mehl was spotted earlier that evening by a witness who noticed shattered glass falling to the ground as Mehl pulled away from the car window, according to the Cambridge Police Department’s incident report...
...report stated that Mehl proceeded to threaten the witness, saying “What are you looking at? Get the [expletive] out of here...