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Place of Birth: Cabinda, Cabinda Province, Angola
About António Bento Bembe
- António Bento Bembe is the Secretary-General of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), a general of Angolan Army, a minister without portfolio in the Angolan government between 2007-2009.
- He is the Secretary of State of the Angolan government for Human Rights, has served as the President of the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FCD) since its establishment in 2004.
- He served as President of FLEC-Renovada.Rival Cabindan rebel groups met in Helvoirt, the Netherlands, in 2004 and formed the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (CFD), a body dedicated to representing Cabindans in peace negotiations with the Angolan government.
- Bembe has served as the CFD's President since its establishment.
- Dutch police arrested Bembe at the Opening Session of the VII UNPO General Assembly in the Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2005.
- The arrest came in response to a U.S.
- government request for extradition on kidnapping charges in relation to a Chevron worker's disappearance in 1990.
- The Justice Ministry arrested Bembe, but the Foreign Ministry had allowed him to enter the country, leading to a departmental rivalry over the case.
- Thousands of Cabindans rallied in favor of releasing Bembe and members of Parliament in Angola and Portugal expressed their support.
- A Dutch court released him on bail but Bembe did not report to police in November.
- The Dutch court then rejected extradition and Bembe returned to Angola.
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