An opposition senator in the Philippines said the death toll in the government's war on drugs has now surpassed 20,000 since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office in 2016.
In a speech before the Philippine Senate on Wednesday, Antonio Trillanes said the Duterte administration's own report shows 3,967 "drug personalities" have been killed after allegedly resisting arrest during police operations between July 1, 2016 and November 27, 2017.
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The report also said 118,287 drug personalities have been arrested, and 1,308,078 others surrendered to authorities during the same period.
All figures were listed as "accomplishments" in the official document titled Fighting Illegal Drugs: #RealNumbers.
Based on the government report, this means the real number of deaths related to the drug war is at least 20,322, Senator Trillanes noted.
"Therefore, all of these deaths are drug-related and not for other causes. That is clear," Trillanes said, adding the official document cited several anti-drug government agencies as sources.
"While the country continues to laugh at the lewd jokes of Duterte, more than 20,000 of our countrymen have been killed."
Trillanes, speaking in Filipino and English, said it is only in the Philippines that a president "flaunts as an accomplishment the killing of people he despises.
"They basically admitted that there are no so-called vigilante killings - that these deaths are actually state-sponsored executions," he said.
The Duterte administration and his police force have maintained all the dead were killed during legitimate police operations.