Patricia Evangelista

thumb|Patricia Evangelista Patricia Chanco Evangelista is a Filipina trauma journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Manila, whose coverage focuses mostly on conflict, disaster and human rights. Quotes “This is a book about the dead, and the people who are left behind. It is also a personal story, written in my own voice, as a citizen of a nation I cannot recognize as my own. The thousands who died were killed with the permission of my people. I am writing this book because I refuse to offer mine.” “The truth was simpler: It takes longer to type a sentence than it does to kill a man.” “Slaughter dressed up in bureaucratese dulls the senses, and over time can anesthetize an entire population to the horror happening right where they live. Objective reality is winnowed away by each succeeding government report. The dead perish again, into nonexistence.” “Maybe those who voted for death thought they had voted for a metaphor.” “I was born in the year democracy returned to the Philippines. I am here to report its death.” “Then one day the man who would be president promised the deaths of his own citizens. The terrible became ordinary, to thundering applause.” “In the end, the presumption of regularity depended on what the mind infers. To kill legally, as the president has ordered, to fulfill a duty, as the president has defined; to continue to work, to do the job, to destroy the enemy - to do all this, the country must make the irrevocable connection between an addict and a gun. It is a connection that the president has made in speech after speech. That is what is normal, acceptable, regular.” “When the intention is to lie, numbers can make extraordinary liars.” “I did not want to be a writer. I wanted to be written about. The single overriding goal of my childhood was to become a heroine.” “The democracy I believed in was the nation, a community of millions who saw brutality as an aberration to be condemned as often and as vigorously as necessity demanded.” Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Journalists from the Philippines