Elias Salupeto Pena

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.

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