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"Roger David Casement" known as "Sir Roger Casement" Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George/CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his knighthood was a British diplomat, human rights activist, Irish nationalist and a poet. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations," he was knighted for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru and awarded honours for his report on the Congo Free State/Congo. These achievements became overshadowed by his efforts during the Great War to gain German collaboration for an Easter Rising/armed uprising in Ireland to gain independence.