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The Realm of the Punisher - Travels in Duterte's Philippines (Paperback)
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The Realm of the Punisher - Travels in Duterte's Philippines (Paperback)
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Loot Price R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
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Discovery Miles: 4 780
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In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential
election by a landslide. Infamous for his bombastic temper and
un-PC wisecracks, he is waging a brutal drug war that has killed
more than 12,000 people so far. Over the last nine years, British
writer Tom Sykes has travelled extensively in the Philippines in
order to understand the Duterte phenomenon, interviewing friends
and enemies of 'The Punisher' -- as he is known -- in politics, the
media, the arts and civil society. Sykes witnesses anti-government
demonstrations in the capital Manila and visits the provincial city
of Davao, where Duterte began his crusade against crime using
police and vigilante death squads. By delving into Duterte's
troubled childhood of violent rebellion, Sykes discovers what
motivates the man today in his pursuit of a merciless 'war on the
poor' -- as Amnesty has described it -- that has no end in sight.
The Realm of the Punisher also examines oppressed and marginalized
groups in the modern Philippines through encounters with a
transgender rights campaigner, an 86-year-old former sex slave to
the Japanese in the Second World War, a public artist who must work
while under attack from Maoist rebels, and slum-dwellers resisting
violent eviction by a real estate company. The past is never far
away from these present-day problems and Sykes' travels to
festivals, cemeteries, war memorials and a tomb housing an embalmed
corpse reveal the ways in which key figures in Philippine history
-- from Jose Rizal to Ferdinand Marcos -- have influenced current
affairs. Funny, tragic, enlightening and uncompromising -- and
infused with the author's strong sense of social justice -- The
Realm of the Punisher is the first major travel book by a Westerner
to explore Duterte's Philippines.
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