This summer, The United Nations Human Rights Council approved a resolution to compile a comprehensive report on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, during which at least 6,700 people have been killed per official figures; human rights experts say that it is likely that more than 30,000 have been killed.

When asked whether UN investigators will be allowed entry in the Philippines, the Foreign Secretary of the Philippines, Teodoro Locsin, called the UN experts “bastards” and announced that they will not be let in to conduct the investigation.

The UN resolution is part of a pattern of international scrutiny against Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte in light of that government’s systematic human rights violations. In response to the assassination of labor leaders, a high-level mission from the International Labor Organization (ILO) is reportedly going to the Philippines next month to conduct investigations on labor-related killings. The Philippines government is not surprisingly also opposed to the investigation by the ILO.