Fact-Check #10

CLAIM:
A video showing multiple individuals engaging in a gunfight in an open field is widely shared on social media, claiming that it portray members of the Kuki community utilising advanced weapons to fire upon security personnel in Manipur.

The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “The so-called innocent Kuki village defender, armed with sophisticated weaponry such as the AK47 and M16, incessantly fires at the Meitei village.”

FACT:
A similar video is shared on the official Facebook page of a Myanmar-based news organisation ‘The Hakha Post’ carrying the extended version of the viral video, dated May 27, 2023. Facebook page of BBC Burmese sharing a keyframe from the video, dated May 28, 2023. As per the image caption, several soldiers from the military council were killed and injured during a skirmish in the Kalay city of Myanmar.

FACT-CHECK RESULT:
FALSE, MEITEI LIES EXPOSED