However, the objective of the mission of the CIVICOP technical team – which was coordinated by Fernando Garcia Miala, head of the State Intelligence and Security Service (SINSE) – ended up not being fully achieved. According to a report from Televisão Pública de Angola (TPA), it was not possible to locate the remains of the two former UNITA leaders, due to a lack of evidence in the place where they were buried.
A witness – who did not want to be identified and who allegedly took part in the execution of the two party leaders and their family members – told TPA that Chingunji and Wilson dos Santos were beaten to death.
After they were executed, according to the same source, Jonas Savimbi, former president of UNITA, allegedly "had the bodies dug up, crushed and charred for four days", with the aim of "definitively erasing" any trace of the murder.
Although they did not locate the remains of the two former leaders, the committee's technical team managed to find four children's bones, which are believed to belong to some of the two leaders' children. However, this information requires confirmation in the laboratory.
In addition to the remains of children, according to the TPA report, the team found two bodies of adults: one allegedly belonged to a civilian, while the other belonged to a soldier from the now extinct armed wing of UNITA, FALA.
The technical team also tried to locate the remains of a priest known as Camilo, allegedly killed under Savimbi's instructions in 1982.
It should be noted that Tito Chingunji was killed at the age of 35, in Jamba, in 1991. His family - wife Raquel Matos aged 29 and sons Estevão Calai aged four and twins Eduardo Matos aged two - also suffered the same fate.
Wilson dos Santos was killed, also in Jamba, at the age of 39. His family, namely his wife Helena Jamba Chingunji dos Santos aged 35 and her children David Elokelo aged 12, Esmeraldo José aged 9, Wilson dos Santos Júnior aged 5 and Changuedila aged 11 months, also died.
