Philippine police vowed on Monday to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody crackdown that has alarmed the international community, Reuters reports. Human Rights Watch researcher Carlos Conde said that the so-called drug war had been used by Duterte to assassinate political opponents, adding to the country’s long history of political assassinations. It has been two years since Duterte became president of the Philippines and unleashed a brutal war on drugs. The death toll is high but nobody seems to know the real numbers — not even the police, as a Deutsche Welle research shows. Initially, the media acted as the main repository of numbers on the drug war, but Rappler confirmed that the report was based on statistics forwarded to the police beat reporters via Viber