看見國家：見證東南亞人權

Seeing the State: Witnessing Human Rights in Southeast Asia

東南亞為世界上打擊毒品力度最強的地區。在本文中，筆者將藉由聚焦兩個特定國家――新加坡和菲律賓――討論一場名為毒品戰爭的人命傷亡。首先，本文透過討論新加坡的死刑，以及菲律賓的法外處決，凸顯兩國政府治理和追求「無毒環境」的價值觀。接著利用因政府打擊毒品而受侵害的群體所呈現出的影像資料與官方論述做對比，透過此比較過程，筆者認為這些紀錄資料成為有力的見證者，同時個人的口述資料也將可成為阻斷以人民之名行使的國家主義暴力。

Southeast Asia has some of the harshest anti-drug laws in the world. In this article I will be discussing the human toll of the so-called drug wars by looking at two specific states namely, Singapore and the Philippines. By highlighting the use of the death penalty in the former and extra judicial killings in the latter, I aim to bring to the fore issues of governmentality and the use of values in the pursuit of a ‘clean’ drug free environment. I will then contrast this with the plight of those most affected by this through the works of groups documenting the human face of these wars. By doing this I state that the power of witnessing and of the individual narrative will blunt the force of statist violence perpetrated in the name of its citizens.