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This story is from August 16, 2019

FAKE ALERT: Old video from Sri Lanka shared as attack on Muslim women in Kashmir

A 30-second-long video was posted by Facebook page ‘Muslims of 21ST Century’ with the claim that it represents current situation of Kashmiri Muslim women in India.
FAKE ALERT: Old video from Sri Lanka shared as attack on Muslim women in Kashmir
Key Highlights
  • A ragging video from Lanka is being shared as attack on Kashmiri Muslim women in India.
  • The video shows some miscreants throwing water on burqa-clad women.
  • Times Fact Check had fact-checked the same video in March this year.
CLAIM
A 30-second-long video was posted by Facebook page ‘Muslims of 21ST Century’ with the claim that it represents current situation of Kashmiri Muslim women in India.
The video shows a few burqa-clad women trying to save themselves from men throwing water at them.
“The situation of Muslims women in india right now. Where is Muslim Ummah, where is Peacekeepers.
Our sisters are put to disgrace mercilessly, they hurting thier faith #PrayForKashmir #KashmirBleedsUNsleeps #HumanRightsWatch (sic),” reads the caption of the video shared on ‘Muslims of 21ST Century’ Facebook page.

The same video with the same claim is being shared by many independent users on Facebook.

TRUTH
The video has got nothing to do with Kashmir. The video is of an incident at Eastern University in Sri Lanka.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY
Times Fact Check had earlier fact-checked the same video in March this year, when it was going viral with another false claim. Self-proclaimed Soviet-Afghan war veteran Zaid Hamid had posted the video then claiming it shows how Muslims are treated in India.

Several Twitter users replied to Hamid’s tweet pointing out that his claim is false and that the incident took place in Sri Lanka.
Taking a cue from those replies, we used relevant keywords on Google and Facebook and found videos of students being allegedly ‘ragged’ in Sri Lankan universities.
Facebook user ‘North Central' had shared the same video then with hashtags #EasternUniversity and #ragging.
north central

Another Facebook page ‘LANKA SUN NEWS’ shared the video with caption “sri east university learners (eastern university of Sri Lanka) (sic)”.
lanka sun news

Facebook user Saadhullah Jawaamil had shared this video on February 26, 2019 with the caption “Eastern University of Sri lanka 2019- Ragging”.
ragging lanka

Ragging is reportedly a menace in Sri Lankan universities. A similar video was posted in 2017, that showed water being hurled at students. The video was captioned ‘University of Colombo (ragging)’.

university of colombo (ragging)


VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that an old video of students being ragged in a Sri Lankan university is being shared with a false claim that Kashmiri Muslim women in India are being attacked.
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