The official death toll from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drugs campaign has surpassed 5,000 according to Derrick Carreon, the spokesman of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Kyodo News reports. The death count is much lower compared to Human Rights Watch findings, which estimates more than 12,000 drug users and dealers have been murdered, mostly coming from poor families in urban centers across the country. Despite criticism towards his government, President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to sustain the momentum of his bloody war on drugs, telling the nation in an annual address on July that the fight would be as “relentless and chilling” as during his first two years in power.