An old video has got viral recently where some civilians are found showing knives to the army and threatening them. Many people have shared this video referring this video to be from India and tagging PM Modi and defence minister of India Rajnath Singh.
Ashwini Upadhyay (@AshwiniUpadhyay) posted this video on 10th Dec, 2021. “see the patience of the army” reads his tweet in English. His tweet got viral and received almost 3,500 likes and more than 1,200 retweets.
सेना का धैर्य देखिए🙏 pic.twitter.com/4jGsJuurml
— Ashwini Upadhyay (@AshwiniUpadhyay) December 10, 2021
सेना के धैर्य को सल्यूट 🙏
लेकिन जो भी अराजक तत्व सेना की वर्दी पर हाथ डाले,सेना पर पत्थर फेंके,सेना के कार्य में रुकावट डाले ऐसे उपद्रवियों के सीने में गोली मारने की सेना को पूरी छूट होनी चाहिए।@narendramodi @PMOIndia@rajnathsingh @crpfindia @AmitShah 👇 https://t.co/lD7afR6fYZ— शिवप्रताप सिंह 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 RTI activist..✍ (@Shivpratap_RTI) December 10, 2021
Fact Check:
After doing a fact check analysis on this video, we found out this video to be misleading. This footage is not from India but from Colombia. Noticias Caracol TV, a Colombian news outlet aired this news on Jan 5, 2018.
Later on this incident, former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos tweeted raising his concern and condemning the incident happened.
Ningún colombiano debe agredir o irrespetar a nuestros soldados que sólo cumplen con el deber de proteger a los ciudadanos y sus derechos. La justicia debe operar contra los agresores.
— Juan Manuel Santos (@JuanManSantos) January 5, 2018
Hence, we can clearly say that this footage is not from India but from Colombia and it is shared to spread misleading content in the society.
