Banna Strand

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This song tells the story of Sir Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru. He then made efforts during World War I to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence, was captured and executed for treason by the British because of it.

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