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 enslavement, massacres and ethnocide of the Indigenous population of the Amazon rainforest by the Peruvian Amazon Company in the area between the Putumayo River and the Caquetá River during the Amazon rubber boom, which lasted from 1879 to 1912.[2]
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