Lingomo is a community in the Équateur

Équateur

Équateur is one of the ten provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is in the north of the country, and bordered the Republic of the Congo to the west, the Central African Republic to the north, to the east the Orientale province, and to the south the Kasai-Oriental, Kasai-Occidental, and...

 province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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In 1908 the missionary W.R. Kirby was stationed at Yalemba

Yalemba

Yalemba was a mission of the Baptist Missionary Society in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying on the north bank of the Congo River between Basoko and Yangambi.The mission was established a short distance downstream from Yabibi Rive...

. In January of that year he made a tour of the country on the south side of the Congo River

Congo River

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, and a summary of his findings was published in the London Times on 18 June 1908.
He made serious accusations that the head of the post at Lingomo was forcing the local people to harvest rubber, burning the villages of those who resisted, destroying their crops of bananas and manioc and taking men, women and children into captivity.