Elias Salupeto Pena (died 2 November 1992) served as the representative of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), an anti-Communist rebel group that fought against The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (

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) in the

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, to the Joint Military and Political Commission.The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, UNITA, Standing Committee of the Political Commission, 1999 - Year of Generalised Popular Resistance
Federation of American Scientists. Pena was a distant relative of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi and a senior advisor to Savimbi.

Death

The government killed Pena along with Jeremias Chitunda, the Vice President of UNITA, in

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in November 1992 following the first round of the

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in what was known as the Halloween Massacre.

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Death

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