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.