Ka Roger�s Message to Jenina Buan
Following is CPP spokesman Comrade Gregorio �Ka Roger� Rosal�s reply to Jenina, daughter of prisoner of war Philippine Army Maj. Noel Buan, who appealed for her father�s release. Buan, intelligence chief of the Southern Luzon Command (SOLCOM), was arrested on July 7, 1999 in Lucena City by a special unit of the Melito Glor Command (MGC).
First of all, we are all unhappy with the fact that there are children separated from their fathers like Jenina, whose father happens to be a prisoner of war of the MGC. But it should be pointed out to Jenina that this situation was brought about by the war being waged by the US-Estrada regime against the revolution and the Filipino people.
Where there is war, where there is civil war, there are captives. It so happened that Maj. Noel Buan was captured by the NPA and that the Estrada regime is obstinate, hardheaded and refuses to negotiate with the NDFP. Thus, though we are sorry for the sadness this has caused Major Buan�s family, all we can do is to fi nd ways to shorten, if not hasten, the process of negotiation as opposed to what Estrada wants to happen.
Secondly, I would like to tell Jenina that she is still fortunate because her father, although a captive of the MGC, enjoys the rights of a prisoner of war. Though Buan is a known SOLCOM intelligence offi cer, he is being treated well by the NPA fi ghters watching over him. This is so unlike the way the reactionary and mercenary Armed Forces of the Philippines treats our comrades and suspected revolutionaries, who when captured by the military and the PNP are either summarily executed or tortured and suffer various violations of their rights.
I am stating all this to let Jenina and her mother Mrs. Buan know that their sorrow is not unlike that of countless sons, daughters and relatives of re vo lutionaries and suspected revolutionaries and likewise that of the children of many Filipinos who are victims of the violence being unleashed by the AFP and PNP not only in Mindanao, not only in Southern Tagalog but all over the country.
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