Earlier this year, an anti-establishment authoritarian Firebrand, famed for his controversial statements

and uncompromising stance on law and order stormed a power off the back of a divisive social media campaign.

Sound familiar?

I'm not talking about Donald Trump, but President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.

Following his election victory in May, due to Philippines.

Following his election victory in May, Duterte vowed to bring an end to the illegal drugs

used by an estimated 1.8 million people in the country,

whatever the consequences.

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Two 30.

Either you kill me or I will kill you.

Does the lives of 10 criminals really matter to me?

What 100 lives of this idiot mean anything to me?

Five months after he came to power,

around 5,000 people are thought to have been killed by police or

vigilantes. Every night between five and thirteen bodies appear on the

streets of the capital Manila, often with cardboard signs reading Pher and dealer placed beside them.

The targets are primarily poor men who use the methamphetamine known locally as shaboo.

But despite the huge number of deaths, the president's popularity doesn't seem to have been affected.

People are even writing pop songs about him. And it's possibly due to the digital support at his disposal. I'm Meghamohan and for this special investigation from the BBC trending team

we've taken to the streets of the Philippines to investigate how Duterte's

drug war is being fought both on and offline.

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