Helder Proença, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helder Proença

Guinea-Bissauan politician

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1956

Place of Birth: Bissau, Bissau Autonomous Sector, Guinea-Bissau

Date of Death: 05-Jun-2009

Profession: writer, poet, politician, author

Nationality: Guinea-Bissau

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Helder Proença (died June 5, 2009) was a Guinea-Bissauan politician who served as Minister of Defense of Guinea-Bissau during the administration of President João Bernardo Vieira.On June 5, 2009, Proença, who was a member of the National People's Assembly at the time, was shot and killed by government security forces on a road connecting the northern town of Bula and with Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Baciro Dabó, a politician and presidential candidate in the June 2009 presidential election, was also killed by government soldiers on the same day.
A third politician, former Prime Minister Faustino Imbali, was also arrested.
Proença's driver and bodyguard were also killed in the attack.In a statement, the Interior Ministry of Guinea-Bissau accused Proença, Dabó and Embali of being part of the alleged coup plot.Portugal's state-run news agency, Lusa, reported that Proenca's body was taken to the morgue at the Simao Mendes Hospital in Bissau following his killing.