Yaboila
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Yaboila is a village in the Isangi Territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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The Lomami Company was formed in 1898 and in 1899 started forcing the local people to harvest rubber.
In 1905 two white officers of the Lomami Company were killed by warriors from Yaboila.
Mr. Pimpurnaux, District Commissioner of Aruwimi, led punitive expeditions.
One of the Topoke
men accused of the murder was hung at Basoko
in November 1905.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
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The Lomami Company was formed in 1898 and in 1899 started forcing the local people to harvest rubber.
In 1905 two white officers of the Lomami Company were killed by warriors from Yaboila.
Mr. Pimpurnaux, District Commissioner of Aruwimi, led punitive expeditions.
One of the Topoke
Topoke people
The Topoke people are an ethnic group that live in the Isangi Territory south of the Congo River, downstream from Kisangani in Tshopo District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
men accused of the murder was hung at Basoko
Basoko
Basoko is a town on the Congo River in Tshopo District of northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 47,970....
in November 1905.