Who is behind Congo Reform Association?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
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Founded by
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Roger Casement
founded
1904
Primary record
1
English: the Belgian experts write that Morel and Casement co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904.
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E. D. Morel
founded
Apr 1904
Scholarship & press
23
Morel writes that the association was his proposal; it was formed in April 1904 with Earl Beauchamp as its first president.
Proof 3 sources
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Special commission to examine the Independent State of the Congo and Belgium's colonial past: findings of the experts (Chamber of Representatives, DOC 55 1462/006, in French), Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, 7 Mar 2024.
Primary record
Morel et Casement cofondent l'Association pour la réforme du Congo en 1904
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Red Rubber: the story of the rubber slave trade on the Congo, by E. D. Morel, T. Fisher Unwin (Internet Archive copy), 1906.
Scholarship & press
an association which should concentrate its energies upon One direct and simple issue
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The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hutchinson (Project Gutenberg), 1909.
Scholarship & press
Mr. E. D. Morel has done the work of ten men, and the Congo Reform Association has struggled hard with very scanty means
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