That number refers to the 1800 alleged drug pushers and users.  I never heard of drug lords being killed as the president said those drug lords were not really in the Philippines but from overseas.  They managed to operate because of their connections in the Philippines some were even government officials.  If you will compare that 1800 drug addicts or drug pushers being killed, it has nothing to the rate that those drug addicts have killed.  Those drug addicts raped innocent students, children, sometimes their own flesh, and sometimes their own grandparents.  They even murdered their own families.  So that number of killed drug addicts were nothing compared to their victims.  Do not believe on what news you just saw and heard or articles that you just have read.  Try to live in a country were there are numerous drug addicts live.  You may want this president.