A Genocide You've Never heard of - Putumayo

Towards the end of the 19th century, as the industrialised world’s demand for rubber kept on growing, a grim toll was taken in the Amazon jungle. Far from the factories and the minds of those riding their bicycles, thousands of Indigenous men, women, and children were being hunted, enslaved, and murdered in order to satisfy the world's seemingly endless demand for Amazonian rubber. In today’s video, we will look at the disturbing history of the Putumayo Genocide.