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> .. a testament to the harsh reality that.. blood flowed profusely in the streets and alleyways of our cities while many Filipinos applauded, that, unless we learn and act on the hard truth that our society needs fundamental reforms to bring about a better dispensation than the rotten one we now have, there can be no guarantee that a murderous fascist like #Rodrigo Duterte will not again emerge from the sewers, from the depths of people’s despair.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-memoir-of-murder-in-the-philippines/
#WaldenBello #Duterte
A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines

Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read. An account of genocide is never an

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> Like any good book, Some People Need Killing poses more questions than answers, and perhaps the biggest ones are: Why did the people of what is often referred to as Asia’s oldest democracy allow a mass murderer to get away with murder for six years? Why, despite his record of genocide, did they give him a 75 percent approval rating when he left office?
#PatriciaEvangelista #AsiasOldestDemocracy and
#StrategyOfCondescension
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> ... 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

May 23, 2024 at 4:42amWeb
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> The impact was not unlike that felt by Evangelista while she was at a massive rally listening to Duterte’s final speech before the 2016 presidential elections, an explosive rant pockmarked by a thousand and one digressions that would be his signature style over the next six years: “You elitists, I write. Us versus them, I write. Kill you, I write. The lights burn hot. The woman behind me screams the mayor’s name, and in spite of my Latin honors, I feel a compulsion to cheer too.”