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When Rodrigo Duterte ran for the presidency of the Philippines and won, in 2016, the Western press noted the similarities between this unconventional candidate and Donald Trump\u2014who also liked to casually espouse violence on the campaign trail and beyond.\xa0 Duterte used provocative and obscene language to tap into the country\u2019s fears about a real, albeit overstated, drug problem. \u201cEvery drug addict was a schizophrenic, hallucinatory, will rape your mother and butcher your father,\u201d as reporter Patricia Evangelista puts it, \u201cand if he can\u2019t find a child to rape, he\u2019ll rape a goat.\u201d But, unlike Donald Trump, Duterte made good on his promise of death. More than twenty thousand extrajudicial killings took place over the course of his six-year term in office, according to human-rights groups\u2014and Duterte remained quite popular as bodies piled up in the streets. Reporting for the news site Rappler, Evangelista confronted the collateral damage when Durterte started to enact his \u201ckill them all\u201d policies. \u201cI had to take accountability,\u201d she tells David Remnick. Her book, \u201cSome People Need Killing,\u201d is published in the U.S. this week, and Evangelista has left the Philippines because of the danger it puts her in. \u201cI own the guilt,\u201d Evangelista says. \u201cHow can I sit in New York, when the people whose stories I told, who took the risk to tell me their stories, are sitting in shanties across the country and might be at risk because of things they told me.\u201d