ACTIVE military officers on Friday took the cudgels for retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, once the poster boy of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) anti-insurgency campaign, warning that any unfair treatment against the embattled retired official would be detrimental to the morale of the soldiers.

At the same time, the 800-member Association of Generals and Flag Officers (AGFO), in a statement, denounced the trial by publicity being heaped by military groups against Palparan, who was arrested on August 12 in Manila.