thumb|right|Mutilated Congolese children and adults Missionary John Harris of Baringa was so shocked by what he had encountered that he wrote to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo, saying: I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo. The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. I was so moved, Your Excellency, by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit.
thumb|right|Mutilated Congolese children and adults Missionary John Harris of Baringa was so shocked by what he had encountered that he wrote to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo saying I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable I was so moved Your Excellency by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit