Patricia Evangelista — Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country - with Phelim Kine - Audiolibro Gratis

_"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.

Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. Her reporting on armed conflict and disaster was awarded the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. She was a Headlands Artist in Residence, a New America ASU Future Security Fellow, and a fellow of the Logan Nonfiction Program, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Her work has earned local and international acclaim. She lives in Manila.

Evangelista will be joined in conversation with Phelim Kine, the D.C.-based China correspondent at POLITICO. Kine’s journalism career includes two decades of reporting from Taiwan, Cambodia, China, and Indonesia. Kine was the deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division from 2012-2018 where he supervised HRW’s work on the Philippines, Indonesia and Afghanistan. Kine’s criticism of  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous drug war prompted him to threaten to  publicly execute Kine in Duterte’s hometown of Davao City. Duterte downgraded that threat three years later by saying he would only slap Kine on his next trip to the Philippines rather than murder him. Kine has yet to take him up on that offer.