During his final SONA, Duterte admits that there would be killings in his drug war as he complains that doing it the ‘legal way’ would ‘take you months and years’

There have been at least 8,663 drug-related deaths since the start of the anti-drug campaign, based on June 2020 figures from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. But human rights groups say the drug war death toll could be as high as 20,000 to 30,000 if extrajudicial killings are included.