Roger Breaking

Roger Casement (born on September 1st 1864 and dead the August 3rd 1916) was a diplomat British of profession and a poet, a nationalist and revolutionary Irish. It is known for its engagement against the abuses the colonial system in Africa and with the Peru and for its revolutionary activism in Ireland.

Breaking was born in Sandycove in the south from Dublin in a Protestant family. Orphan as of the ten years age, it is raised by friends in Ulster.

Breaking in Africa

Breaking comes to Africa for the first time in 1883 at the age 19 years as a diplomat. It meets there Henry Morton Stanley and Joseph Conrad. In 1892 Roger Casement leaves Congo to join the British colonial administration with the Nigeria. In 1895 it is named Consul with Lourenço Marques (current the Maputo). It is then named successively British consul with the Mozambique, in Angola, then with the Congo, property of Léopold II. It denounces there the atrocities made by the agents of the king on the local population in a report/ratio. This last contributes to raise the European opinion against the direct administration of the colony by Léopold; a board of inquiry is formed. Following the conclusions of this commission, the government of the colony will be transferred at the Belgian State.

With the service of the independence of Ireland

In 1911, for services rendered to the crown in its various stations occupied abroad, it is year by the queen. There it stops its diplomatic career for health reasons and settles in Ireland where it takes makes and causes for the nationalists. It negotiates with imperial Germany the sending of Mauser rifles to the Irish freedom fighters of IRB and ICA. These rifles will never arrive between the hands of the Irish nationalists since the ship transporting them will be scuttled to avoid being captured by the Royal Navy.

After having failed in 1916 in its mission which consisted in recruiting in the British prison camps in Germany of the volunteers Irish to take part in an insurrection armed against the British government, it tries to dissuade Patrick Pearse and its companions to start this one, which it considers insufficiently prepared.

Its death

It returned in all haste in Ireland on board a German Sous-marin . It was captured by an English patrol as of its unloading, in bay of Tralee before to have been able to prevent the combat of the Semaine of Easter . These engagements ended in a capitulation of the Irish nationalists with Dublin but were the first sudden starts leading to the independence of the island. Shown high treason, sabotage and espionage against the British crown, Casement was hung with London on August 3rd, 1916.

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