Mastodawn

The #publiclibrary finally came through on my hold! I've followed the reporting of #PatriciaEvangelista reporting across #typhoon and #Duterte and am stoked to read her #memoir #SomePeopleNeedKilling.

#ACABincludesAnimalControl #Dogsagainstfascism
#NoOfficerHeWasWithMe #books #journalism #philippines

bsmall2 Mar 24, 2025

> Mr. Duterte was always clear about his intent. He said, over and over, often to applause, that anyone who resisted arrest on suspicion of selling or using drugs would be killed. They were drug addicts, he said, and addicts are “sick with paranoia” and “are always armed.” Killing them is not murder, only justice, he said. He encouraged the public to take part in the killings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/duterte-icc-drugs-victims.html
#PatriciaEvangelista on #Duterte #RodrigoDuterte #PhilPol #philippines #SomePeopleNeedKilling

Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

In Duterte’s Philippines, due process was not a right, it was a privilege that was not extended to the victims of his drug war.

The New York Times

iokevins Jun 6, 2024

Listening to SOME PEOPLE NEED KILLING: A MEMOIR OF MURDER IN MY COUNTRY (2023) - Patricia Evangelista

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_People_Need_Killing

#Book #Books #Audiobook #Library #PublicLibrary #Libby #LibbyApp #PatriciaEvangelista #SomePeopleNeedKilling #Philippines #ExtrajudicialDeathSquads #RodrigoDuterte #Duterte #Obama

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bs2 May 23, 2024

> ... he paused and uttered his signature, “Papatayin kita,” or “I will kill you,” as in “If you destroy the youth of my country by giving them drugs, I will kill you.”... my mind had to restrain my body from joining the chorus of laughter at the sheer comic effrontery of his words...

#ThePhilippines
#Tagalog #Bisaya
#PaptayinKita #IWillKillYou
#SomePeopleNeedKilling

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Apr 27, 2024

Not looking forward to a heavy read, but confronting this very recent history is important.

#SomePeopleNeedKilling #PatriciaEvangelista #books #bookstodon #nonfiction #Philippines #tootSEA @pinoy

Carlos H. Conde (HRW)Jan 11, 2024

01/12/24 Philippines human rights news

🚩 @HRW world report #Rights2024
🚩#RedTagging in PH
🚩@DahasPH: Casualties of Marcos’s “bloodless” #drugwar
🚩 Duterte gifted with #SomePeopleNeedKilling book
🚩 Nearly 1,000 cops fired, 108 over drug offenses

https://humanrightsnews.substack.com/p/hrw-world-report-rights2024-redtagging