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  • 2021-09-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Old video of violence in India's Bihar state recirculates after violent clashes in Assam (en)
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  • Following deadly clashes between protesters and police forces in India's Assam state on September 23, 2021, a video began circulating on Twitter and Facebook alongside a claim about recent attacks on Muslims in the state. The video has been shared in a misleading context: the clip has circulated online since 2011 in reports about violence in India's Bihar state. The video was posted here on Twitter on September 25, 2021. It has been viewed more than 35,000 times. The tweet's caption reads: A dangerous escalation against Muslims in the Indian state of Assam: demolishing mosques, destroying Muslim homes, killing & arresting hundreds of them. Muslims face worst form of genocide in Assam at the hands of Terrorists RSS Fascists. #AssamHorror. The video shows bodies lying in an open area. A man kicks and abuses one of the bodies while several police officers stand in the background. A person standing off-camera can be heard asking: He's been punished, now what's the use? Another person can be heard shouting: He threw bricks at us. The languages heard in the video are Hindi and Bihari. Warning Show Screenshot of the post falsely claiming to show footage of violence in Assam state. Taken on September 25, 2021 ( AFP / ) Hide Thousands staged protests in India's Assam state on September 24, a day after two people were killed when hundreds clashed with police over the state government's eviction of Muslim families from their homes, AFP reported here . The video has been shared alongside a claim that it shows violence in Assam on Twitter here , here , here and here ; and on Facebook here and here . The video, however, has been shared in a misleading context. It has circulated since 2011 in reports about violence in India's Bihar state. A reverse image search found this report by media outlet India Today published on June 24, 2011. It links to scenes in the video shared in the misleading posts. More than three weeks after police firing left four people dead in Forbesganj area of Araria district in Bihar, a video has emerged revealing how the men in khaki brutally treated the protesting villagers and killed them in the process, reads the report. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the video on India Today's website (R): Warning Show Screenshot comparing the footage in the misleading posts (L) with the original from India Today (R). Taken on September 28, 2021. ( AFP / ) Hide A link to the video was also shared in this 2015 report by Indian media outlet The Wire. The report reads: In a video recording of the incident, you can see a young man lying in the sand, breathing; his name was Mustafa, and a few seconds in, a constable from the Home Guard, Sunil Kumar Yadav, brutally jumps on him, abusing him, again and again. The incident was also reported by Indian media outlets The Hindu and The Milli Gazette in 2011. The old video circulated online after riot police in Assam were filmed beating a protester who had fallen to the ground seconds after gunshots were heard. AFP reported on the incident here . (en)
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