Journalists Killed in 1994 - Motive Confirmed: Adolphe Missamba Ndengi Kavula
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Date:
January 1995
Nsemo
November 12, 1994, in Kasangulu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kavula, editor-in-chief and owner of the opposition newspaper Nsemo and a prominent member of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, was kidnapped on October 28 by a group of men thought to be from the Presidential Militia. Ten days later, he was found barely alive in a field on his farm outside Kasangulu, 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Kinshasa. He appeared to have been badly tortured. He died in a Kinshasa clinic on November 12. An autopsy was not performed, but medical tests indicated that he may have been injected with a toxic substance. Zairian authorities claimed that Kavula's death was a suicide.
Medium: | |
Job: | Editor |
Beats Covered: | Politics |
Gender: | Male |
Local or Foreign: | Local |
Freelance: | No |
Type of Death: | Murder |
Suspected Source of Fire: | Government Officials |
Impunity: | Yes |
Tortured: | Yes |
Threatened: | No |
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