THE ambush of members of the Cafgu Active Auxiliary (CAA) by the New People’s Army (NPA) that left a militiaman dead and four others wounded in Davao del Norte would not dampen the resolve of the military to support peace negotiations with communist rebels, a military official said on Thursday.

“It will not dampen our resolve because we believe in the peace process and we abide by it and we maintain our resolve to continue with [the peace talks],” said Col. Edgard Arevalo, chief of the Public Affairs Office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

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