Patricia Evangelista’s memoir, ‘Some People Need Killing,’ is a powerful and intimate account of the thousands of lives lost in former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs. Evangelista, a trauma reporter known for her longform literary reportage, chronicles the stories of victims and survivors, and paints a sweeping history of the political and moral climate that led to the Duterte moment. Through her own experiences as a journalist covering the drug war, Evangelista also explores the cost of standing witness and the importance of storytelling in a post-truth world.