Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—told through harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens—from a jo…

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