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On 29 March 2017, the Facebook group Video Live published a video purportedly showing dozens of Muslim men being tortured in a near-underwater cage in Burma: This video possibly does not depict a group of Muslims being tortured in Burma, but rather a training process for the elite Malaysian commando unit Grup Gerak Khas. The earliest iteration of this video that we could uncover is a December 2016 YouTube clip titled Basic Komando, and a very similar scene appears in a History Channel documentary about the Malaysian special forces unit. At about the 32-minute mark of the History Channel documentary, the recruits are put in a water jail over a failure to follow orders: In the video, a man who appears to be a soldier explains: According to the History Channel, Malaysia's special forces unit Grup Gerak Khas undergoes a 13-week selection course from hell: It is unlikely this video actually captures Muslims being tortured in Burma. However, many viewers may have been prone to believe that claim because the Burmese government has a history of violence against Rohingya Muslims. The Independent reported in February 2017 that Burmese authorities may have killed more than 1000 Rohingya Muslims during a recent crackdown.
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