Adolphe Missamba Ndengi Kavula
Year: 1994
Nationality: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Killed by: Government Officials
Location: Kasangulu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Press organization: Nsemo
What's Adolphe Missamba Ndengi Kavula's story?
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.
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