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Putumayo genocide
Part of the Amazon rubber boom
Huitoto natives in conditions of slavery
Location	Colombia and Peru
Date	1879 (1879) – 1912 (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]

^ Tully, John (2011). The Devil's Milk A Social History of Rubber. Monthly Review Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-58367-261-7.
^ ^a ^b "Cien años después, la Amazonía recuerda uno de sus episodios más trágicos" [One hundred years later, the Amazon remembers one of its most tragic episodes]. BBC News (in Spanish). October 12, 2012. Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^ Uriarte, Javier; Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe, eds. (2019). Intimate Frontiers A Literary Geography of the Amazon. Liverpool University Press. p. 120. ISBN 9781786949721.
^ Department of State 1913, pp. 119, 160.