Benjamin Saldaña Rocca

Argaluza ordered the Barbadian employees Stanley Lewis and Ernesto Siobers to administer 155 stripes after accusing the woman of sleeping with another young man.

I will fight undaunted and without respite, scorning the switchblade of the assassin and the pistol of the thug.” The publication promised the exposing and denouncement of those committing crimes in the region, and also included content from the original criminal petition that was filed.

This deposition further relayed "another scene, excessively inhuman and repugnant" detailing the sexual abuse of a woman named Matilde by employees of the rubber company, and specifically Bartolomé Zumaeta.

According to Julio Murieda, "These are the actual deeds that are carried out constantly in the Putumayo, and for the lack of one kilogram in the weight of their quota of rubber they murder, mutilate, and torture the people.

Readers were invited to go to the La Sancion printing office if they thought Saldaña was trying to deceive them, and there he stated he would give details and "show him authentic documents, proving the truth of my assertions.

[6] Galvez gave this body of work to Walter Ernest Hardenburg, an American engineer who had recently travelled through the Putumayo on the way to the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad construction project.

Hardenburg, and by extension Saldaña's work was first published in the English world in September 1909, by Sidney Paternoster in a magazine named Truth, under the headline "The Devil's Paradise: A British-Owned Congo.

"[12] In response, chargé d'affaires for the Peruvian legation in London, Eduardo Lembcke, fully denied these allegations in defense of Arana's Company, stating that it was impossible for his government to not have known about atrocities occurring in the Putumayo.

Paternoster emphasized that even if Saldaña's evidence was to be regarded as a pack of lies, Hardenburg and his friend Walter Perkins were still eyewitnesses of atrocities and testified to a condition of lawlessness in the Putumayo.

[15] The public reaction to the revelations included in Paternoster's article led to the London directors of the Peruvian Amazon Company sending an investigatory commission to the Putumayo in 1910.

The British Foreign Office took the opportunity to attach Roger Casement to the commission, who had previously exposed atrocities occurring in the Congo Free State in the pursuit of rubber extraction.

[16] The work started by Saldaña Rocca and continued by others, eventually led to multiple arrest warrants issued against employees of the Peruvian Amazon Company.

One sentence from the paper stated "that humble defender of Right and Humanity had to fly from Loreto and died miserably in a wretched hole in order that he should not in his turn be the victim of the criminal exploiters of that river."

The public outcry that originated from the work of Saldaña, Hardenburg, Paternoster, and Roger Casement helped play a role in the Peruvian Amazon Company's liquidation, which occurred in 1913.

Researcher and writer Mario Vargas Llosa stated that "There is no way to find testimonies of the last years of Benjamin Saldaña Rocca in Lima."