FAKE ALERT: Old video shared as Indian soldiers celebrating after entering 4 km across LAC

[beijingwalker]

FAKE ALERT: Old video shared as Indian soldiers celebrating after entering 4 km across LAC
Times Fact Check | Sep 7, 2020, 17:28 IST

HIGHLIGHTS

• Video of a group of soldiers dancing is being shared with the claim that Indian soldiers erupted in celebrations after entering 4 km into LAC at India-China border.
• The video has nothing to do with the latest skirmish between India and China as Pangong Tso lake on the night of August 29-30, 2020. It was shot before this military engagement.

Video of a group of soldiers dancing is being shared with the claim that Indian soldiers erupted in celebrations after entering 4 km into LAC at India-China border.

Several Facebook pages and users shared the same video with the same claim.

TRUTH
The video has nothing to do with the latest skirmish between India and China as Pangong Tso lake on the night of August 29-30, 2020. It was shot before this military engagement.

VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY
On closely watching the video, we observed a frame where we could see a Tibetan flag.

Taking a cue from this, we used ‘Tibetan army dance video’ as keywords in Google search and found a video uploaded to the Facebook page 'Tibet Channel' on August 27, 2020. The video had the same visuals as the one shared above.


As per a report from Times Now, the latest skirmish between Indian and Chinese forces happened on the night of August 29-30, 2020, two days after this video was already on the internet.

“The Chinese side violated this understanding and engaged in provocative military manoeuvres in the late night of 29/30 August in an attempt to change the status quo in the South Bank area of Pangong lake,” read a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs India.
“Indian side was able to prevent these attempts to unilaterally alter the status quo,” it mentioned.

VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that an old video is being falsely passed off as Indian soldiers celebrating after re-capturing 4 km of territory inside Chinese side of LAC.

FAKE ALERT: Old video shared as Indian soldiers celebrating after entering 4 km across LAC - Times of India

News News: Video of a group of soldiers dancing is being shared with the claim that Indian soldiers erupted in celebrations after entering 4 km into LAC at India

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[beijingwalker]

VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that an old video is being falsely passed off as Indian soldiers celebrating after re-capturing 4 km of territory inside Chinese side of LAC.

Indian media captures square km everyday

 

[beijingwalker]

Indians killed dozens of Chinese PLA generals, well, the second time, cause they all had long died already.


Fake list of 56 Chinese soldiers who ‘died’ in Galwan Valley created using Wikipedia page
Pooja Chaudhuri
20th June 2020

The India-China dispute that led to the death of at least 20 Indian army soldiers has given rise to social media speculations on the number of Chinese casualties. Beijing is yet to release any figure yet the rumours that started with five, now put the number of Chinese deaths at 56.

Several Twitter accounts have shared the alleged list of Chinese soldiers who died in the Galwan Valley.

Twitter account New Line IFE also shared the ‘list’ and later took down the tweet.

Fact-check
News Line IFE has emerged as a prominent handle spreading misinformation around the number of Chinese casualties. The handle first came into notice after several Indian journalists claimed that five Chinese soldiers were killed based on a tweet by a reporter associated with China-based Global Times. The reporter, whose source was News Line IFE, later retracted her tweet and Global Times put out a statement claiming that the channel never released any figure on Chinese casualties. News Line IFE had also promoted false claims that 30 and subsequently, 43 Chinese soldiers died fighting Indian troops.

A Google search of some of the names out of the 56 currently viral, takes one to the Wikipedia page ‘List of generals of the People’s Republic of China’. The names have been lifted from the page in the exact order.

This was earlier fact-checked by Boomlive.

A list of Chinese soldiers who ‘died’ in Galwan Valley was therefore created by lifting names of the generals of the PLA from a Wikipedia page.

Fake list of 56 Chinese soldiers who 'died' in Galwan Valley created using Wikipedia page - Alt News

The India-China dispute that led to the death of at least 20 Indian army soldiers has given rise to social media speculations on the number of Chinese casualties. Beijing is...

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[TNT]

India have to resort to fake stuff to stroke ego of their stupid population. The good thing is that majority of the population is as dumb as a rock and would fall for anything.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Quite funny. I have been on Chinese forums and they are quite angry on what happened. Google translate helps to an big extent. And then they are adding reports even from local Osint to share what happened.

And here CCP bots post stuff on how fake they are based on older even faker stuff to show their bravado to Pakistani fan bases that they are strong. Propaganda can only help to an extent.

 

[beijingwalker]

Quite funny. I have been on Chinese forums and they are quite angry on what happened. Google translate helps to an big extent. And then they are adding reports even from local Osint to share what happened.

And here CCP bots post stuff on how fake they are based on older even faker stuff to show their bravado to Pakistani fan bases that they are strong. Propaganda can only help to an extent.

What Chinese forum? Google translation? are you kidding me...

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

What Chinese forum? Google translation? are you kidding me...

So you folks can ban, threaten and close down all forum too? Anyway that forum has many CCP hard fans and I won't give out the name. I fear for their lives even though I have never met or spoken with anyone.

So pls continue with your propaganda here. Am not here to stop anyone. Ciao

 

[Bossman]

All this false bravado for walking up a few hills where they are sitting ducks from UCAV launched missiles operating many miles away and so flying high that they cannot hear or see it. They are trying to fight a 21st century war using 19th century tactics. If the UCAV will not kill them, very soon the cold and lack of water will get them. This not Siachin where they can melt glacier ice. These are barren hills. Every drop of water has to be brought up. If they use a anti tank missiles on the PLA from their vantage point, they definitely will get their asses cooked by a UCAV missile. Either they are stupid or are desperate to please Modi at the cost of their soldiers, this time the Tibetan cannon fodder.

 

[manga]

You are quoting indian media to prove its fake.

 

[beijingwalker]

You are quoting indian media to prove its fake.

So it's fake or not?

 

[Chhatrapati]

The fact Check summarized

This is not the video after taking over the heights on Aug 29 it's the video of celebration just two days before.

Anyway, dear bot farm trolls, you missed the point.

 

[Imran Khan]

indians always celebrate fake like it or not

 

[Longhorn]

indians always celebrate fake like it or not

Fake nation.