Fake videos on social media ‘wrongly’ project Army in Kashmir

Ajay Banerjee

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 23

It’s literally a ‘war’ on social media, and unwittingly Indians have been forwarding fake and morphed videos showing ‘strong action’ by the Army in Kashmir.

Some of these videos are not even shot in India, but are nowadays being passed-off as new ‘policy’ in Kashmir. The preferred mode of transmission is to send these videos through WhatsApp.

Indian security establishment sees such fake videos showing ‘strong action’ as propaganda from across Pakistan which is eyeing to use these videos to dis-credit the Indian Army. The United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) is at present in its 38th session in Geneva.

Many videos of the Army bringing down houses, mishandling people and dragging terrorists have emerged in the past one week. All of them are fake, top sources have said.

These videos are a soft and oblique way to spread a false narrative of human rights violations like houses being pulled down, sources said.

Nothing has changed for the Indian Army and its operations either during ceasefire declaration (May 17 to June 16) or after its withdrawal. 

Some of these videos are not even of India and are morphed or interpolated.

Last week, a UN report on Kashmir was rejected by the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs terming it as “fallacious, tendentious and motivated”.