Mina Bonteri was a human female politician from the planet Onderon who represented her homeworld and the wider Japrael sector first in the Senate of the Galactic Republic and later in the Confederacy of Independent Systems Parliament. Disillusioned by Republic bureaucracy and inaction, she became an early and ardent supporter of Count Dooku's Secessionist Movement.
As a member of the Galactic Senate she briefly mentored the newly appointed Senator Padme Amidala. Guided by Bonteri, Onderon seceded from the Republic, and she relocated with her family to Raxus Secundus. Within the Confederacy she became one of its most influential figures and a leader of the Parliament's anti-war Peace Faction, holding that legitimacy should be established through diplomacy.
Mid-way through the Clone Wars she reconnected with Amidala to advance a peace initiative, introducing the motion to the Separatist Senate. Parties intent on prolonging the war, including Dooku, orchestrated her assassination to derail the process—a death that turned her orphaned son, Lux, against the Confederacy. This overview is drawn from Wookieepedia under CC BY-SA; chronological details are presented in the Timeline.
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