Human Rights Watch (HRW) has been keeping a close watch on the Philippine’s war on drug launched by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte since July 2016. In March, 2017, the commission released a report titled “License to Kill”: Philippines Police Killings in Duterte’s “War on Drugs” which details the atrocious killings of thousands in the name of the war. “The drug war in the Philippines is a human