CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Activists are asking President Duterte to help bring justice to Dutch activist Wilhelmus Geertman, who was robbed and killed on July 3, 2012 at the boundary of this Pampanga capital and Angeles City.
In a statement on Sunday, the fourth anniversary of his killing, the Justice for Wilhelmus Geertman Movement (J4WGM) said it has “strong reason” to believe that the Dutchman was gunned down by either policemen or soldiers. At the time of his murder, Geertman was executive director of Alay Bayan, a nongovernment organization helping disaster victims.
The J4WGM said Geertman had suffered harassment from people believed to be soldiers and policemen who were hired allegedly by companies engaged in logging and mining in Aurora province.
A criminal case filed against the suspected killers is undergoing trial after the Department of Justice in 2014 revised it from homicide and robbery to murder and robbery. Tonette Orejas, Inquirer Central Luzon