![The idyll is deceptive. In 1896, an ex-mercenary murdered three people in Bärschwil in Solothurn.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/barschwil-300x225.jpg)
The Bärschwil triple murder
A bloody slaying in Bärschwil in Solothurn laid bare the global scars left by colonial violence in the late 19th century.
![Article in the newspaper Der Bund of 25 May 1896.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/artikel-bund-228x300.jpg)
Colonial war in Aceh
![Map of present-day Indonesia. Aceh is located at the western end of the Malay Archipelago at the northwestern tip of Sumatra.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/karte-indonesien-300x246.jpg)
![Soldiers of the Dutch Colonial Army wash in the Aceh River (photographed between 1900-1910).](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-dreifachmord-300x225.jpg)
Swiss fighters at the front
![Photograph of a Dutch colonial army transport convoy in Aceh, ca. 1880.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/soldatentransport-300x191.jpg)
War and trauma
![After his arrest, Jeker was admitted to the Rosegg sanatorium for further examination. The institution on a lithograph from 1862.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/heilanstalt-300x155.jpg)
A bloody slaying in Bärschwil in Solothurn laid bare the global scars left by colonial violence in the late 19th century.