Putumayo genocide | |
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Part of the Amazon rubber boom | |
Location | Colombia and Peru |
Date | 1879 | – 1912
Attack type | Slavery, Genocidal rape, torture, Crimes against humanity |
Deaths | 32,000[1] to 40,000+[2][3][4] |
Perpetrators | Peruvian Amazon Company |
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The Putumayo genocide (Spanish: Genocidio del Putumayo) is the term which is used in reference to the enslavement, massacres and ethnocide of the Indigenous population of the Amazon at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company, specifically in the area between the Putumayo River and the Caquetá River during the Amazon rubber boom period from 1879 to 1912.[2]
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