Rodrigo Duterte during his presidential campaign in Manila on May 7, 2016, days before he won the election by 6 million votes.

Neighbors look inside the aftermath of a crime scene in Mandaluyong on November 1, 2016, hours after Manuel Evangelista, Edmar Velarde, Paulo Tuboro, Jennifer Discargar, and Catalino Algueles were massacred by masked men. Evangelista’s daughter said she was in the house with her father and his friends when the killers barged in, made her leave and started shooting.

The crime scene where five people were killed by unidentified gunmen in Mandaluyong City on the night of October 31, 2016.

Police tries to maintain the crime scene while they inspect the body of Kristeta Padual on March 4 2017 in Quezon City. Padaual was killed alongside Ernesto Mortiz by unidentified killers on motorcycles.

15-year old Jazmine Durana cradles her month old daughter Hazel at the wake of her partner John “Toto” Dela Cruz who was killed by men in black masks on January 26, 2017 in Navotas. She said she heard the suspects accuse Toto of stealing and using drugs before they shot him four times. Toto was 16 years old.

Children play with guns on midnight after Christmas of 2016 at the wake of Liwayway Yabut and Richard Reyes, both killed by unidentified gunmen in motorcycles. Yabut was killed days before Reyes and Reyes was shot while visiting her wake. The gunmen also shot Reyes's then 13-year old son on the leg. Both Reyes and Yabut surrendered to OPlan Tokhang when Duterte took office.

Men shield their faces from the media after being arrested in a food factory believed to be a drug den by cops in Pandacan, Manila on December 9, 2016.

Niña, not her real name, cries inside the theater while watching a play about the drug war on August 30, 2019 in Ateneo de Manila University. Niña's parents were killed in front of her and her siblings inside their home in 2016. She was 11 when they were killed said she blames herself, regretting not embracing her mother before they killed her. "Maybe they would have spared her if I did", she said.

A boy climbs the apartment-type tombs of Navotas public cemetery on July 07, 2017. Navotas public cemetery is the last resting place for people from poor families in Navotas where many were killed when the war on drugs was launched.