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Fact Crescendo CambodiaWar & conflict

Facebook page called “Pey Pey Ly” recently posted two photos showing a line of artillery sets along a beach. The post was accompanied by the caption, “I think China is strong, the truth is they’re only barking”. This post has received a lot of mixed reactions from Khmer-speaking Facebook users as they believed that those photos were really China’s artillery guns lining to attack Taiwan. This comes after China reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to their highest level in years.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

dpaWar & conflict

Deze beelden tonen aan hoe een Russische aanval op burgers in scène wordt gezet door een filmploeg van het Kiev-regime.

Publisher’s rating: De claim dat deze beelden aantonen hoe een Russische aanval op burgers in scène wordt gezet door een filmploeg van het Kiev-regime klopt niet. De beelden tonen de opnames van de film ‘Region of Heroes’, geproduceerd door IDEAFILMS.

The claim concerns a TikTok video said to show a staged Russian attack on civilians, allegedly arranged by a film crew working for the “Kiev regime.” The review identifies the footage instead as filming for the Ukrainian feature film *Region of Heroes*, which tells stories of people resisting Russian occupation. It says the damaged buildings visible in the video served as the film’s setting, rather than evidence that an attack was fabricated. [S1: “Zo zou deze video laten zien hoe een Russische aanval op burgers in scène wordt gezet ‘door een filmploeg van het Kiev-regime’. Wat blijkt? De verwoeste gebouwen door het oorlogsgeweld dienen als decor voor een speelfilm.”] The review traces the video to the TikTok account “yarikfors,” which posted it on August 8, 2022. It identifies the account holder as Yaroslav Forsik, a casting assistant on *Region of Heroes*, and reports that he confirmed to AP fact-checkers that the clip was made on the film set. That identification links the footage to the specific production, rather than relying only on its appearance or on general claims about wartime filming. [S1: “De originele video is terug te vinden op het TikTokkanaal ‘yarikfors’ en werd op 8 augustus 2022 online gezet. Het profiel behoort Yaroslav Forsik, die als casting-assistent meewerkt aan de Oekraïense film ‘Region of Heroes’. Hij bevestigde de factcheckers van het AP dat de TikTok op de filmset is gemaakt.”] Location and production records provide further corroboration. The review says the video’s text identifies Hostomel, northwest of Kyiv; AP fact-checkers matched a ruined building in the clip’s background to a photograph in their archive from that city. It also points to the film’s public Facebook announcement that shooting in the Kyiv region had begun, and to production-company photographs of a filming day in Hostomel. Taken together, the reported account-holder confirmation, location match, and production records support the explanation that the video shows film production amid real war damage. [S1: “uit de vertaling van de derde regel van de tekst in de video (Гостомель) blijkt het hier om de stad Hostomel te gaan, ten noordwesten van Kiev. De factcheckers van het AP wisten dit te verifiëren: in hun eigen foto-archief is een foto uit Hostomel terug te vinden, waarop het verwoeste gebouw dat in de achtergrond van de TikTik video te zien is duidelijk te herkennen is.”]

FACTLYWar & conflict

Recent picture of a Palestinian fleeing with his child following the Israel armed forces strikes on Palestine

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a picture presented as a recent image of a Palestinian fleeing with his child during Israeli strikes. FACTLY reports that the image instead shows a man carrying a child while escaping an Islamic State-controlled area of Mosul, Iraq, during the Battle of Mosul in March 2017. That identification directly contradicts the claim that the picture depicts flight from the Israel-Palestine conflict. The review says it used reverse-image search and found the same photograph in an NBC News article. NBC’s caption described a man carrying his daughter while fleeing an ISIS-controlled part of Mosul toward Iraqi special forces during fighting on March 4, 2017. FACTLY also found the same image on Reuters Pictures, where photographer Goran Tomasevic described the father and child fleeing gunfire in Mosul’s Wadi Hajar neighborhood. Together, the image matches and the contemporaneous captions identify the people, place, and event as the 2017 Mosul battle—not a recent Israeli strike. The review concludes that the picture is unrelated to the Israel-Palestine conflict; it does not claim the photograph itself was fabricated.

FACTLYWar & conflict

1965 వరకు భారత సైన్యంలో ముస్లిం రెజిమెంట్ ఉంది. 1965లో దీనిని రద్దు చేశారు, అందుకు రెండు ప్రధాన కారణాలు. 1) 1947లో భారత సైన్యంలో ఉన్న కొందరు ముస్లిం సైనికులు, తమ సొంత బెటాలియన్లో ఉన్న వీర్ గూర్ఖా సైనికులని చంపారు 2) 1965లో ఇండో-పాక్ యుద్ధ సమయంలో ముస్లిం రెజిమెంట్లో సైనికులు పాకిస్తాన్‌తో పోరాడేందుకు నిరాకరించారు

Publisher’s rating: FALSE