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Helder Proença (died June 5, 2009) was a Guinea-Bissauan politician who served as
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of
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during the administration of
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João Bernardo Vieira João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (; 27 April 1939 – 2 March 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician and military officer who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until ...
. On June 5, 2009, Proença, who was a member of the National People's Assembly at the time, was
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and killed by government
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on a road connecting the northern town of Bula and with
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, the capital city of
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.
Baciro Dabó Major Baciro Dabó (12 March 1958 – 5 June 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician. Considered to have been a close ally of President João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, he served as Minister of Territorial Administration and was standing as a candid ...
, a politician and
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in the June 2009 presidential election, was also killed by government soldiers on the same day. A third politician, former Prime Minister
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, was also arrested. Proença's driver and
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were also killed in the attack. In a statement, the
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of Guinea-Bissau accused Proença, Dabó and Embali of being part of the alleged coup plot.
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's state-run
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, Lusa, reported that Proenca's body was taken to the morgue at the Simao Mendes Hospital in Bissau following his killing.


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