Tito Chingunji

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{{short description|Angolan rebel}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tito Chingunji
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| birth_name = Pedro Ngueve Jonatão Chingunji
| birth_date = c. {{birth year|1955}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afr120011992en.pdf|title=£ANGOLA @An appeal for prompt action to protect human rights|date=May 1992|publisher=Amnesty International|access-date=2023-11-26|page=6}}</ref>
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| death_date = August {{death year|1991}} (aged 36)
| death_place = Angola
| parents = Jonatao and Violeta Chingunji
| spouse = Raquel "Romy" Matos<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/2022-10-25-big-read-the-day-a-hero-of-the-people-decided-to-murder-them/|title=BIG READ: The day a hero of the people decided to murder them|date=2022-10-25|last=Bridgland|first=Fred|publisher=Business Live|access-date=2023-11-26}}</ref>
| children = 3
| relatives = [[Dinho Chingunji|Dinho]] (nephew)<br/>[[David Chingunji|David]] and [[Kafundanga Chingunji|Kafundanga]] (brothers)
}}
'''Pedro Ngueve Jonatão "Tito" Chingunji''' (c. 1955 - August 1991)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sowetolifemag.co.za/the-guerrilla-and-the-journalist-exploring-the-murderous-legacy-of-jonas-savimbi/|title=The Guerrilla and the Journalist- Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi|last=Mawela|first=Jacob|date=2022-09-20|publisher=Soweto Life|access-date=2023-11-26}}</ref> served as the foreign secretary of [[Angola]]'s [[UNITA|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.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA347422.pdf|title=Sub-Saharan Africa Report|date=1987-03-04|publisher=National Technical Information Service|access-date=2023-11-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Book Review: A Spectre Haunting a Journalist and a Devastated Land|journal=Historia|volume=68|number=1|date=May 2023|page=177|last=Baines|first=Gary Fred|doi=10.17159/2309-8392/2023/v68n1a7|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Death==
Chingunji was murdered in [[Angola]] in 1991<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n00kKKraE0UC&dq=Wilson+dos+Santos+died+1991&pg=PA102|title=Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War|last=Brittain|first=Victoria|date=1998|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-0-7453-1247-7|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Angola: Don't Simplify History, Says Savimbi's Biographer |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200206250743.html |date=25 June 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113060824/https://allafrica.com/stories/200206250743.html |archive-date=2021-11-13 }}</ref> Savimbi, however, suggested Chingunji's 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.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1D6133BF936A35756C0A964958260 "Angolan rebel lays killings to a CIA plot,"] ''The New York Times'', May 5, 1992.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20020323030622/http://www.africaaction.org/docs99/ang9901.htm "Jonas Savimbi denounced as a "murderous dictator" Angola: Peace monitor V. 5]

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[[Category:Politicians assassinated in 1991]]
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