1. Jean-Pierre Finant was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from June until October 1960.
10 Facts About Jean-Pierre Finant
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Jean-Pierre Finant was born on 22 April 1922 in Bondo, Belgian Congo to an Azande mother and a Belgian father.
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Jean-Pierre Finant undertook six years of primary and four years of middle education at the Ecole des Freres Maristes in Buta.
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Jean-Pierre Finant served as president of the Association du personnel des Telecommunications and was a member of the Association du Personnel Indigene de la Colonie labour union.
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Jean-Pierre Finant was married and had five children, including future singer Abeti Masikini.
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In 1959 Finant was elected to the council of the Mangobo commune.
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Jean-Pierre Finant later became the vice-president of the Orientale Province branch of the Mouvement National Congolais.
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Jean-Pierre Finant escaped, but was recaptured seven days later and transferred to Luzumu Prison in the Lower Congo and held alongside other political prisoners.
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Jean-Pierre Finant was later sent to Bakwanga, South Kasai where he was tried before a tribunal.
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Jean-Pierre Finant was found guilty and subsequently executed there on 13 February 1961 and buried alongside other executed political prisoners in a mass grave.