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The Philippine Drug War refers to the drug policy of President Rodrigo Duterte. According to official police documentation, the crackdown on illegal drug trade in the Philippines officially known as Campaign Plan Project: "Double Barrel" consists of a two-pronged approach: Lower Barrel approach under Project Tokhang or Oplan Tokhang (Cebuano for tuktok, "knock", and hangyo, "persuade"), and "Upper Barrel approach" under "Project HVT" (High Value Targets). The policy has been condemned by the UN, the US and the EU. UN data shows that the Philippines has a low rate of illegal drug use compared to the global average. Approximately 9,000 people have been killed as of April 2017, according to Reuters. A third were claimed by police, and, according to human rights groups, many of the remaining two-thirds were killed by hired killers cooperating with police, or by police themselves posing as vigilantes, which the police and government deny. Duterte has made statements encouraging members of the public to kill drug addicts. While police claim they kill only in self-defense, their kill ratio of 97%, combined with eyewitness testimony, led Reuters to state in December 2016 that "officers are summarily gunning down suspects". In January 2017, Amnesty International published a report of their investigation into the policy, which they described as "not a war on drugs, but a war on the poor", with police operations targeting "mostly poor and defenceless people across the country while planting 'evidence', recruiting paid killers, stealing from the people they kill and fabricating official incident reports." Duterte said in March 2017 that he was "unconcerned" by senate moves to impeach him, or by testimony against him from ex-hitmen and others at the International Criminal Court, of which the Philippines is a member state. Because the killings are targeted against one specific community, urban slum dwellers, they "could amount to crimes against humanity as defined by the International Criminal Court", according to a Human Rights Watch report in April 2017.