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Some People Need Killing

10 min read 12 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A Filipino journalist documents the human cost of President Duterte's drug war, where state-sanctioned killing becomes policy and ordinary people become complicit in extraordinary violence.

You’ll learn

  • How language is weaponized to justify murder
  • The psychology of killers who believe they're right
  • The complicity of a public that looks away
  • The cost of normalizing state violence