Gwendoline Harris (Napoleon's World)

Gwendoline "Gwen" Harris (August 4, 1966 - January ?, 1996) was an Oceanian photojournalist working on behalf of the Overseas News Service and the Sydney Morning Herald, famous for her work in Borneo during the Dayak Genocide. Along with embed reporter Melissa Howard (1963-1996) from Australia Broadcasting, Harris was kidnapped by Banjarese paramilitaries on January 14, 1996, tortured, raped and eventually murdered sometime in the following two weeks. The discovery of the bodies of Harris, Howard, and their Dayak translators in the Sampit River in early February sparked international outrage and led to what was deemed the "Howard-Harris Affair," which shone further attention on the ethnic cleansing of the Dayak population of Banjar and eventually led to Oceania's late 1996 bombing campaign and the 1997 Darwin Accords. The Gwen Harris Award is an annual award given out in her honor in Oceania for outstanding work in photojournalism.