A video of a girl getting brutally assaulted is recently is making rounds on the microblogging platform. The viral video was shared by a propagandist named Manish Kumar Advocate who claimed that the incident took place in Manipur violence. He further said that the young Christian Kuki girl in the video was being tortured by armed people before being fatally shot. Although things are getting out of control, Modi and Shah have maintained silence.
In the video, a few Burmese-speaking people wearing military uniforms viciously attack a female and interrogating her in the middle of the road. At the very end of the 2 minutes 20 seconds video, the victim’s eyes were blinded with the eye mask and she was asked to kneel down. Then one of the assaulter carrying the gun took the position to shoot her dead
Since May 3, when a “Tribal Solidarity March” was held to protest against the Meitei community’s demand for the status of Scheduled Tribe (ST), there have been incidents of ethnic violence involving the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur, northeast India.
Another user who seemed to be the Congress supporter tweeted the viral video under the reply section of journalist, Aman Chopra, and claimed the same thing that a Christian girl was shot dead in Manipur violence.
Besides, the verified account, Kailash Mina, who is the Joint Secretary of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from the Thanagazi Assembly constituency, according to his bio, and another user Shahanvaj sharing the same video made the same claim.
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Fact Check
We extracted the different keyframes from the video and did the reverse image search. The reverse image search led us to different articles reporting the incident.
As per the article headlined “NUG opens probe into brutal killing of woman by members of its resistance force” by the Myanmar Now, dated December 6, 2022, the incidence is from Myanmar.
In June 2022, the event occurred in the Tamu town. Aye Mar Tun, a 25-year-old Non-CDM (Civil Disobedience Movement) teacher, was identified as the victim in the clip. In the video clip, she is chained while members of the resistance group are shown continuously striking her in the head, kicking her, yanking her hair, and assaulting her with a rifle.
Further, we found that the victim was accused of serving as an informant. Some of the alleged perpetrators belonged to the 4th Battalion of the Tamu District chapter of the anti-junta People’s Defence Force (PDF).
Moreover, in the video, the resistance group members are interrogating the girl. “Do you like money that much?” the interrogator questioned the woman. The interrogators included a woman. The young woman, who was in tears, responded that she wasn’t a military informant. A woman slaps her and orders her to admit she was an informant. To this she replies, “I wasn’t.” The victims involvement was suspected in the arrest of one PDF member.
The another report by Burma News International, the victim was not taking part in the Civil Defence Movement (CDM). They said that she was killed in June for giving information to the junta that led to the arrest and killing of local PDF members.
A spokesman for the Tamu Township People’s Defense Team (PDT) alleged that the woman killed was a member of the Pyu Saw Heti militia, which is trained and armed by Myanmar’s military. He claimed that she was involved in the arrest and killing of a 17-year-old member of TAMU PDF in April, 2022.
He stated that members of the resistance forces had kidnapped Aye Mar Tun because she was accused of attempting to gather intelligence on the location of resistance forces camps in the area.
Hence, considering the above mentioned points, it becomes clear that the viral video is not from Manipur, but Myanmar.
| Claim | A Christian girl was shot dead by armed civilians in Manipur |
| Claimed by | Twitter users |
| Fact Check | Fake |
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