有些人需要杀戮

Some People Need Killing, by Patricia Evangelista

This powerful book mostly covers the years between 2016 and 2022, when Rodrigo Duterte was president of the Philippines and pursued a murderous campaign of extrajudicial killings — EJKs for short. Such killings became so frequent that journalists like Evangelista, then a reporter for the independent news site Rappler, kept folders on their computers that were organized not by date but by hour of death. Offering the intimate disclosures of memoir and the larger context of Philippine history, Evangelista also pays close attention to language, and not only because she is a writer. Language can be used to communicate, to deny, to threaten, to cajole. It can propagate lies, but it also allows one to speak the truth.

《有些人需要杀戮》(Some People Need Killing)，帕特里夏·伊万杰里斯塔著

这本犀利的书主要讲述了2016年至2022年期间的情况，时任菲律宾总统罗德里戈·杜特地掀起了一场法外处决（简称EJKs）的凶残运动。杀戮过于频繁，以至于像埃万杰利斯塔（她当时是独立新闻网站Rappler的记者）这样的记者，在电脑上保存的文件夹不是用日期命名，而是精确到小时。伊万杰里斯塔的作品既有回忆录中的私密披露，也有菲律宾历史的大背景，她在语言上也下了很大功夫，这不仅是因为她是一名作家。语言可以用来沟通、否认、威胁、哄骗。它可以传播谎言，但也可以让人说出真相。

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