Pedro Ngueve Jonatão "Tito" Chingunji (c. 1955 - August 1991) 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

in 1991 under circumstances still not fully understood. Some blamed his murder on UNITA leader

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, 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 Chingunji's killing was more likely the work of UNITA dissidents or the

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, 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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