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Sentries had killed and mutilated Nsala's wife and daughter. Appalled, Alice persuaded Nsala to pose with his child's remains on the veranda of her home for a picture. Initially, Alice's photographs were used in Regions Beyond, the magazine of the Congo Balolo Mission. In 1902, the Harrises returned to Britain temporarily.
The image depicts a Congolese man named Nsala examining the severed foot and hand of his five-year-old daughter, Boali. The photograph was taken by Alice Seeley Harris, [2] the wife of a missionary, in the village of Baringa on 14 May 1904.
Her father – a former soldier – dismissed his wife in order to take another wife so that he might have a son, but she turned out to be sterile. As a child she forgave her father for leaving her mother. [1] Nengapeta – and her birth mother – were both baptized together in 1945 and she took the name "Alphonsine". It seems she was baptized ...
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after the provincial capital was captured by rebels ...
More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...
DOVER — A local man killed his wife and daughter last week before killing himself, according to preliminary autopsy results.. The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 's preliminary ...
The New York Times reported that 44 civilians had been killed by government forces in revenge for the killing of three soldiers by rioters. [4] Port Francqui incident: April 28, 1961 () 47 [5] Kindu atrocity: 11 or 12 November 1961: 13 Murders of 13 Italian airmen by soldiers during the Congo Crisis. November 1964: 8+
In December 1961 he returned to Redondo Beach but continued to talk of returning to the Congo because of its great needs. [4] Carlson at work at Ouassolo Hospital in the Congo. In July 1963, along with his wife, son Wayne, and daughter Lynette, he returned to the Ubangi region of the African nation known at the time as the Republic of the Congo.