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Omer Bodson
Omer Bodson (5 January 1856 – 20 December 1891) was the Belgian officer who shot and killed Msiri, King of Garanganze (Katanga) on 20 December 1891 at Bunkeya in what is now DR Congo. Bodson was then killed by one of Msiri's men.〔David Gordon: "Decentralized Despots or Contingent Chiefs: Comparing Colonial Chiefs in Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo." KwaZulu-Natal History and African Studies Seminar, University of Natal, Durban, 2000. ''(Note that many 'This Day in History' websites give the date as 17th December 1891, and list for that date "Belgian Captain Omer Bodson died in battle ()").''〕 ==Military career== Omer Bodson was born in Liege. He served in the Belgian military and then joined the military service of King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Free State in 1887, and was stationed at Mateba then Stanley Falls where he assisted the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He court-martialled the African soldier who shot Major Barttelot, leader of the Rear Column of that expedition.〔Joseph A. Moloney: ''With Captain Stairs to Katanga'', Sampson Low Marston & Co, London, 1893. ''See: Bodson pp14-15, killing of Msiri pp188-193, death of Bodson pp193-194''.〕 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.〔
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