Wherever he was assigned, General Palparan maintained and directly commanded a death squad which carried out abductions, torture and extrajudicial killings against activists and suspected supporters of the revolutionary movement.
Saan man siya maitalaga, nagmamantine at direkta niyang kinukomand ang isang death squad na nagsasagawa ng mga pagdukot, pagtortyur at ekstrahudisyal na pamamaslang sa mga aktibista at pinaghihinalaang tagasuporta ng rebolusyonaryong kilusan.