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  • 2021-09-23 (xsd:date)
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  • This photo shows an ambush scene from an American movie in 2019 (en)
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  • A photo has been shared in multiple Facebook posts that claim it shows a military convoy ambushed by an anti-junta armed group in Myanmar's Magway region in 2021. But the claim is false. The photo in fact shows a still from an American movie called Jarhead: Law of Return that was released in 2019. The photo was published on Facebook here on September 20, 2021. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on September 22, 2021. The photo's Burmese-language caption translates in part as: A work of Magway PDF... Sons of MAL, military dogs which bite bones. Even an sudden ambush went so special. Absolutely special. Sep.19. Magway is a region located in central Myanmar. PDF is an acronym for people's defence force -- armed groups set up by a shadow government in Myanmar in response to deadly crackdowns against anti-coup protesters. The country has been in turmoil since February when the military deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering a mass uprising of daily protests. MAL is a reference to Myanmar army leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing . Comments on the post indicate people were misled. PDF must win, one wrote. May PDFs be safe, said another. The same photo was also shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here , here , here , and here . However, the claim is false. Online searches on Google found the photo in fact shows a still from an American movie released in 2019 titled Jarhead: Law of Return . An AFP journalist watched the movie and found the photo in the false posts corresponds to a scene around the one-hour and 28-minute mark. Screenshot comparison of the photo in the misleading posts (L) and the ambush scene in the movie (R) An identical photo was also published in this 2019 Spanish-language review of Jarhead: Law of Return. And a still showing the same scene from a different angle was uploaded on the IMDB page of the movie here . Multiple keyword searches found no credible reports about an ambush in Myanmar's Magway region on September 19, 2021 as the misleading posts allege. (en)
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