Elias Salupeto Pena | |
Death Date: | 2 November 1992 |
Known For: | being murdered |
Occupation: | a representative of UNITA, politician |
Family: | Jonas Savimbi (distant relative) |
Elias Salupeto Pena (died 2 November 1992)[1] 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 (MPLA) in the Angolan Civil War, to the Joint Military and Political Commission.[2] Pena was a distant relative of, and a senior advisor to, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.[3]
The government killed Pena[4] along with Jeremias Chitunda, the Vice President of UNITA, in Luanda in November 1992, following the first round of the presidential election in what was known as the Halloween Massacre.[2]