Tito Chingunji Explained

Tito Chingunji
Birth Name:Pedro Ngueve Jonatão Chingunji
Birth Date:c. [1]
Death Date:August (aged 36)
Death Place:Angola
Parents:Jonatao and Violeta Chingunji
Spouse:Raquel "Romy" Matos[2]
Children:3
Relatives:David and Dinho (nephews)
Kafundanga (brother)

Pedro Ngueve Jonatão "Tito" Chingunji (c. 1955 - August 1991)[3] served as the foreign secretary of Angola'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 Washington, D.C.[4] [5]

Death

Chingunji was murdered in Angola in 1991[6] under circumstances still not fully understood. Some blamed his murder on UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, 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.[7] Savimbi, however, suggested his killing was more likely the work of UNITA dissidents or the Central Intelligence Agency, which, Savimbi argued, had supported Chingunji in an effort to overthrow him.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: £ANGOLA @An appeal for prompt action to protect human rights. May 1992. Amnesty International. 2023-11-26. 6.
  2. Web site: BIG READ: The day a hero of the people decided to murder them. 2022-10-25. Bridgland. Fred. Business Live. 2023-11-26.
  3. Web site: The Guerrilla and the Journalist- Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi. Mawela. Jacob. 2022-09-20. Soweto Life. 2023-11-26.
  4. Web site: Sub-Saharan Africa Report. 1987-03-04. National Technical Information Service. 2023-11-26.
  5. Book Review: A Spectre Haunting a Journalist and a Devestated Land. Historia. 68. 1. May 2023. 177. Baines. Gary Fred. 10.17159/2309-8392/2023/v68n1a7. free.
  6. Book: Brittain, Victoria. Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War. 1998. Pluto Press. 978-0-7453-1247-7. en.
  7. News: Angola: Don't Simplify History, Says Savimbi's Biographer . 25 June 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20211113060824/https://allafrica.com/stories/200206250743.html . 2021-11-13 .
  8. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1D6133BF936A35756C0A964958260 "Angolan rebel lays killings to a CIA plot,"