The following year, Pantaleon said that Villalongha’s wife was killed along with Marvin Marquez and six other NPA members by the AFP’s 801st Brigade in Trinidad, Bohol. “This did not dampen Ka Val’s revolutionary enthusiasm; he immersed himself further in the NPA’s various expansion work outside his native Bohol even as he has become increasingly burdened with periodically severe asthma attacks,” said Pantaleon.

Pantaleon said that Cabungcag or “Ka Regan” ‘was a part-time legal activist who, while busy trying to eke out a living for his family as a semi-skilled self-employed technician, also allotted time to understand why the rural poor choose to migrate to the already-congested urban centers in the country.’

He said that Cabungcag volunteered for a three-month exposure program with the NPA. “It was unceremoniously cut short only two days after arriving at the NPA unit” said Pantaleon.

Pantaleon said, “The blood that Ka Val, Ka Hannah and Ka Regan shed was in the service of the poor peasants of Negros. In songs and poems, in comradely sharings and criticism-self criticism sessions, in clandestine “Luksang Parangal,” we will always remember how they conquered life by not cowering in fear of death from the oppressors and their mercenary army.” (Bulatlat)

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