Organizer: Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN

Type/Location: In person / New York City

Description:

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU and NYSEAN, in a book talk with investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista about her new book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. The discussion will focus on Evangelista's on-the-ground account of a nation careening into a violent autocracy and the harrowing stories of those killed through state-sanctioned campaigns of violence.

Some People Need Killing is Evangelista’s meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines’ drug war and its president, Rodrigo Duterte’s assault on his 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 campaign that has led to the slaughter of thousands – immersing herself in a world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of fear created when a democratically-elected president decides that some lives are without worth. The book takes its title from a vigilante, whose words reflect the psychological accommodation that many in the country have made: “I’m really not a bad guy,” he said. “I’m not all bad. Some people need killing.”

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