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By Anmol Alphonso A video from Manipur of Meitei women's group - Meira Paibis - chasing away personnel of the Mahar Regiment while protesting against the deployment of security forces, is being shared on social media with the false claim that two Indian army soldiers were killed by a group of women when they attempted to molest them BOOM found that the claim is false, as the video is unrelated, and there has been no reported allegation of molestation against the soldiers, nor any report of soldiers being beaten to death, as claimed in the viral post. In the 19-second video, a group of women ca...
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By Anmol Alphonso A video from Indonesia showing a group of men walking away with a makeshift house with the false claim that it shows people from the Meitei community stealing a house belonging to a Kuki in Manipur. Clashes between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribe in Manipur started on May 3, 2023, leading to over several people displaced from their home, the deaths of 150 people and more than 400 sustaining injuries according to reports. In the video, a group of people carrying a structure resembling the roof and beams of a makeshift house, stumble with the structure falling on them. ...
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By Hazel Gandhi The video of a father-daughter duo performing an old Hindi song is being shared with a false claim that a Kuki and Meitei are singing together in Manipur amid the unrest between the two communities. BOOM found that the video shows Shekinah Mukhiya and her father from Dehradun, Uttarakhand-- none of them are related to the Kuki or Meitei communities in Manipur. The Supreme Court has appointed former Mumbai Police Commissioner Dattatray Padsalgikar to monitor a CBI probe into the sexual violence in Manipur. Along with this, a three-judge women panel comprising former High Court j...
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By Hazel Gandhi A clipped video of a Meitei woman talking about the unrest in Manipur has been shared with the false claim that she criticised the opposition for turning a blind eye to the crisis in the state and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking action. BOOM found that the video has been clipped and shared out of context to make the claim; in the full video, the woman is criticising the central government for not taking action sooner. In the 2-minute long video, the woman is speaking to opposition leaders Kanhimozi Karunanidhi from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Adhir Ranjan C...
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By Ritika Jain Since the past few months, Manipur—the bowl-shaped valley in India’s north-east region—is seeing ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities after the state high court recommended Schedule Tribe status to the former. According to Reuters, as of July 28, the violence has claimed the lives of 181 people, 300 injured, and approximately 54,488 internally displaced. However, according to a statement issued by 102 journalists with South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), there was “little reporting of Manipur by mainstream TV channels”, and the news that did come out was a tailor...
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By Hazel Gandhi A distressing video from Myanmar showing a woman's beheading is viral online with the false claim that the incident took place in Manipur where Kuki militants dressed up as Meiteis and killed her. BOOM found that the video is from Myanmar and the incident took place on February 19, 2022. The video shows a man using a knife repeatedly to kill the woman lying down on the ground. The deathly conflict in Manipur between the Kuki and Meitei communities began in early May after the High Court asked the state government to consider including Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe list, a move...
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By Srijit Das A viral message falsely claims that people from the Kuki community are entering trains in Assam, those from Guwahati to Silchar of Assam to look for Meitei people. BOOM reached out to Dima Hasao Police in Assam who confirmed that the messages are false and confirmed that there are no reports about such a search operation being launched by the Kukis. According to news reports, fresh violence erupted on July 26 in Manipur's Moreh Bazar area, located near the Myanmar border. Reports say Kuki locals at Sapormeina area allegedly stopped buses of security forces arriving from Dimapur o...
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By Hazel Gandhi News outlet Asian News International (ANI) misreported on Thursday that a Muslim man named Abdul Hilim, was arrested in relation to the viral video of two women being paraded naked and sexually assaulted in Manipur's Thoubal district by a mob. The news agency quoted Manipur Police in its now deleted tweet, however, BOOM found that Abdul Hilim, was a cadre of the separatist group People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak - Progressive (PREPAK Pro) and was arrested in Imphal; he had no connection to the viral video in question. ANI tweeted a retraction and an apology on Friday a...
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By Anmol Alphonso The Indigenous Tribal Leaders 'Forum (ITLF), a conglomerate of several tribal groups in Manipur distanced itself from a press release claiming that the forum extended an apology to the Kuki people for "misguidance and conflict with Meitei people," and called the statement fake. The press release went viral on social media and was published by wire agency Asian News International (ANI) whose story was republished by several other news organisations. ANI later deleted their article and issued a correction. Manipur has been gripped by ethnic violence between the Kuki and Meitei ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video from the recent protests in Syria's Golan Heights which is currently occupied by Israel is being shared online with the false claim that it shows pro-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) militants attacking tribals in Manipur. The clashes between the Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur began two months ago, and since then, the death toll in the state has crossed 100 with 400 injured. Manipur's CM N Biren backtracked his resignation by making an announcement on Twitter on June 30 that he would not be resigning. This was after protests outside his residence by supporters urgin...
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