Now those accusations have drawn the attention of the International Criminal Court, which announced Thursday it would examine deaths tied to Duterte's drug war.
That means almost everything we know about them comes from small research labs, independent groups, or local fatality review boards, whose mandates do not always grant them authority to examine deaths in detail.
Given the large number of charts, it was not possible to examine deaths classified under different categories such as accident, homicide, or undetermined cause of death.
The Shelf Life column in Arts & Ideas on Saturday, about the book "The Dominion of the Dead" by Robert Pogue Harrison, misstated the century when the philosopher Giambattista Vico, who also examined death, flourished.
The researchers, led by Marcus Bachhuber, then at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Pennsylvania, examined death certificates in all 50 states between 1999 and 2010.
First, he briefly examines death rates in Iraq and Darfur: violent deaths in Iraq during the U.S. invasion and occupation far surpass death rates in Darfur during its ongoing conflict.
We examined death censored graft survival in 3 cohorts of young patients transplanted at a single center.
Crowcroft and Catchpole (2002) examined death registrations from 1993 to 1998 and found an increase in the proportion of certificates mentioning methicillin-resistant Staph.
We also examined death from breast cancer and non-breast cancer death as the end-points with end of follow-up on 31 December 2008 as information on the cause of death was not available after this time.
