"'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 and Duterte's assault on the 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 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"--
