A review by sam8834
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

A journalistic collection of stories accounting state-sanctioned killings of citizens in the Philippines during the Rodrigo Duterte administration's drug war. It is about as yikes as you would imagine the story of any nation on the path to autocracy. Evangelista is also interesting here as a journalist and a self-inserted character in the book. She aims to be somewhat clinical in her reporting of countless murders, yet it is easy to see from the book's outset that working as a reporter on disasters has left a lasting mark on her, especially when it comes to her home country.