Patricia Evangelista Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country-有些人需要杀戮

2016年，在竞选时承诺屠杀300万吸毒者的罗德里戈·杜特尔特当选菲律宾总统。本书对随后发生的暴力事件进行了毫不畏缩的叙述。一位菲律宾记者讲述了该国六年的反毒战争，在此期间，她整个晚上都机械地沉浸在有组织的杀戮中。这本书被认为是法外处决的记录，交织着回忆录的片段，描绘了帕特里夏·伊万杰利斯塔的个人演变，以及杜特尔特领导下的国家的演变。在此期间，她成为了“一个我无法承认是我自己的国家的公民。”
 
书名：Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country《有些人需要杀戮》

作者：Patricia Evangelista

简介：A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—told through harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens—from a journalist of international renown

“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 chronicled 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.

The book takes its title from a vigilante whose words seemed to reflect the psychological accommodation that most of 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 also a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an important investigation of the human impulses to dominate and resist.