Omer Bodson

He court-martialled the African soldier who shot Major Barttelot, leader of the Rear Column of that expedition.

[2] Bodson returned to Belgium in 1889 as a captain of the Belgian Carbineers and took part in the suppression of riots in Liège, receiving the personal thanks of King Leopold.

[2][3] The last words of Omer Bodson were reported to have been: I don't mind dying now that I've killed Msiri.

[2] Bodson was buried in Bunkeya and when Moloney returned to London in 1892 (Stairs having died on the return journey), King Leopold was still engaged in a campaign to legitimise his Congo Free State's claim to Katanga under the 1884–5 Berlin Conference's Principle of Effectivity.

[5][6] Leopold was successful in consolidating ownership of Katanga which then joined the Congo in suffering through one of the most notorious periods of colonial exploitation in African history.

Photograph of Bodson from Demetrius C. Boulger's Congo State (1898).