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Aurelio and Arístides Rodríguez
20th-century Peruvian mass murderers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the later stages of the Putumayo genocide, the brothers Aurelio and Arístides Rodríguez respectively managed the rubber stations of La Sabana and Santa Catalina, which were located near the Cahuinari River. The rubber collected at these stations was dependent on slave labor from the Huitoto, Boras and Resígaro indigenous populations. Between 1903 and 1907 the Rodríguez brothers were employed by J.C. Arana y Hermanos, which became the Peruvian Amazon Company in 1907, both companies were founded by the Peruvian rubber baron Julio César Arana.
Evidence collected by Walter Ernest Hardenburg, Benjamin Saldaña Rocca, Roger Casement and judge Rómulo Paredes implicated the Rodríguez brothers with the perpetration of various crimes against the local indigenous population, including flagellation, deliberate starvation, rape and murder among other atrocities. In 1910, the general manager of La Chorrera admitted that the Rodríguez brothers "had killed hundreds of natives" during their management of Santa Catalina and La Sabana.
Aurelio and Arístides both retired in 1909 and afterwards they travelled to Europe. Arístides perished on June 18 of 1910. Aurelio was arrested for his role in the Putumayo genocide in 1911 along with several of his subordinates, however Pablo Zumaeta arranged to bail Aurelio out with a payment of £2,000. Aurelio escaped from prison at Iquitos in May of 1915 with Armando Normand prior to a verdict in their trial.
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