What is Roger Casement?
{{no sources|date=November 2024}} '''Sir Roger Casement''' (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] nationalist and [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Politician|diplomat]]. He served as British consul in [[Boma]], the capital of the [[Congo Free State]] and reported [[human rights]] abuses there. He helped a campaign against King [[Léopold II of Belgium]]'s rule in the Congo Free State which lead him to relinquish his African kingdom to the Belgian Parliament in 1908. He was an Irish revolutionary. After participating in the [[1916 rising]], he was executed for [[treason]] by hanging by the British. His role in the rising was in the importation of guns, he was arrested in Tralee, County [[County Kerry|Kerry]]. At his trial he was outed as gay, this was discovered through his diary.{{cn|date=December 2015}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Casement, Roger}} [[Category:1864 births]] [[Category:1916 deaths]] [[Category:British diplomats]] [[Category:British criminals]] [[Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo]] [[Category:Irish politicians]] [[Category:People executed by hanging]] [[Category:British LGBT politicians]]