Elias Salupeto Pena


Elias Salupeto Pena served as the representative of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, an anti-Communist rebel group that fought against The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan Civil War, to the Joint Military and Political Commission. 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 Luanda in November 1992 following the first round of the presidential election in what was known as the Halloween Massacre.