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Pedro Ngueve Jonatão "Tito" Chingunji served as the foreign secretary of
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's The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebel movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1980s, he was UNITA's representative in
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Death

Chingunji was murdered in
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in 1991 under circumstances still not fully understood. Some blamed his murder on UNITA leader
Jonas Savimbi Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary politician and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA waged a guerrilla war agai ...
, who purportedly viewed Chingunji as a political threat. Fred Bridgland Savimbi's biographer and longtime supporter claimed that between 60 and 70 of Chingunji's relatives were killed following his own execution, including his own children who were swung against trees. Savimbi, however, suggested his killing was more likely the work of UNITA dissidents or the
Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
, which, Savimbi argued, had supported Chingunji in an effort to overthrow him."Angolan rebel lays killings to a CIA plot,"
''The New York Times'', May 5, 1992.


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