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Casement joined the Colonial Service, under the authority of the Colonial Office, first serving overseas as a clerk in British West Africa.[3] In August 1901 he transferred to the Foreign Office service as British consul in the eastern part of the French Congo.[4] In 1903 the Balfour Government commissioned Casement, then its consul at Boma in the Congo Free State, to investigate the human rights situation in that colony of the Belgian king, Leopold II. Setting up a private army known as the Force Publique, Leopold had squeezed revenue out of the people of the territory through a reign of terror in the harvesting and export of rubber and other resources. In trade, Belgium shipped guns and other materials to the Congo, used chiefly to suppress the local people.[citation needed]