Some people need killing : a memoir of murder in my country / Patricia Evangelista.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 428 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593133132
- 0593133137
- Memoir of murder in my country
- Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, 1945-
- Extrajudicial executions -- Philippines
- Drug control -- Philippines
- Drug dealers -- Violence against -- Philippines
- Drug addicts -- Violence against -- Philippines
- Police brutality -- Philippines
- Vigilantes -- Philippines
- Philippines -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
TIME 'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A "riveting" ( The Atlantic ) account of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as "a journalistic masterpiece" ( The New Yorker )
"Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story."--Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, CrimeReads, The Mary Sue
"My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long."
Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.
Some People Need Killing is Evangelista's meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war. For six years, Evangelista documented the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of Duterte's war on drugs--a crusade that has led to the slaughter of thousands--immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others.
The book takes its title from a vigilante, whose words demonstrated the psychological accommodation many across the country had made: "I'm really not a bad guy," he said. "I'm not all bad. Some people need killing."
A profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism, Some People Need Killing is a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist.
Includes bibliographical references.
Positive -- The Surviving Majority -- Mascot for Hope -- The Rise of the Punisher -- Defend the Mayor -- Salvation -- How to Identify an Addict -- How to Kill an Addict -- My Friend Domingo -- Some People Need Killing -- Djastin with a 'D' -- My Father is a Policeman -- Epilogue : We Are Duterte.
"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. Some People Need Killing is Evangelista's meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war and Duterte's assault on the country's struggling democracy. For six years, Evangelista had the distinctive beat of chronicling the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of Duterte's war on drugs - a war that has led to the slaughter of thousands - immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others"-- Provided by publisher.