Putumayo genocide

The Putumayo genocide 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.[1]

Putumayo genocide
Part of the Amazon rubber boom
Huitoto Amerindians in conditions of slavery
LocationColombia and Peru
Date1879 (1879) – 1912 (1912)
Attack type
Slavery
Deaths40,000 to 250,000+[1][2]
PerpetratorsPeruvian Amazon Company

Events

The Peruvian government ceded to the Peruvian Amazon Company the Amazon territories north of Loreto, after the company's founder Julio César Arana purchased the land. Shortly after, private hosts of Arana – brought from Barbados –[3] which consisted of forcing Amerindians to work for him in exchange for "favors and protection", with the offer being unable to deny as disagreements led to their kidnapping by mercenaries paid by the company. The Amerindians were subjected to isolation processes in remote areas to collect rubber in inhuman conditions and if they did not meet the required amount, they were punished with death or were disappeared in "distant camps" where ninety percent of the affected Amazonian populations were annihilated.[4]

References
  1. "Cien años después, la Amazonía recuerda uno de sus episodios más trágicos". BBC News (in Spanish). 12 October 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. White, Matthew (15 July 2019). "Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls". Necrometrics. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. Davis, Wade (2017). El río: exploraciones y descubrimientos en la selva amazónica. Grupo Planeta. pp. 283–284.
  4. "Cien años de la matanza de La Chorrera, Amazonas". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 7 October 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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