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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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FACTLYWar & conflict

Names of 56 Chinese soldiers who died in the face-off with the Indian army at Galwan valley (Ladakh)

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a social-media screenshot listing 56 names, presented as Chinese soldiers killed in the face-off with Indian troops in Galwan Valley, Ladakh. FACTLY’s review says the clash took place on 15 June 2020. It reports that India announced 20 of its soldiers had died, while China had not announced the names of its casualties at the time covered by the review. The review investigated the names in the screenshot rather than treating the list’s caption as evidence of who had died. It says searches for the listed names identified them as retired People’s Liberation Army generals, and that the same names appeared in Wikipedia’s “List of Generals of the People’s Republic of China.” The review adds that some of the officers had died long before the Galwan clash, which contradicts their presentation as soldiers killed in that recent event. FACTLY therefore concludes that former PLA generals’ names had been repurposed as a casualty list. The excerpt also reports that China had not released names or a casualty number at the time, so the screenshot itself did not establish the claimed deaths or identities.

FACTLYWar & conflict

Photos and videos related to the recent India-China border fight at the Galwan valley in Ladakh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The investigation concerns photos and videos circulated in the context of the India-China border clash at Galwan Valley in Ladakh on the night of 15 June 2020. It examined several posts and compared the material with earlier online coverage and media. Its central finding was that the images and videos were not evidence of that recent clash: the review says the posted photos were old, and some did not relate to India at all. For the first post, the review reports that every photo was old, with some nearly a decade old, and says earlier news articles containing the same photos could be found. In the second post, it identified one image as already addressed and described the other three as old: two came from separate incidents in 2015, while another related to the 2019 Pulwama attack. These earlier origins contradict their presentation as images of the 2020 Galwan clash. The review also traced one video to an online appearance at least as early as December 2019, when it was posted on YouTube under a title describing shelling along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India. It explicitly cautions that it could not independently verify that video's context. Its conclusion about that clip is narrower: the video was not related to the recent situation along the Line of Actual Control. The review says other videos in additional posts had already been debunked in separate fact-checks, but the supplied text does not describe those checks in detail.

YouturnWar & conflict

ஒட்டு மொத்த இந்தியா மீது விழ இருந்த அடிகளை உங்கள் உடம்பில் வாங்கிக் கொண்டு எங்களை பாதுகாத்த இந்திய ராணுவ வீரர்களான உங்களை அரசியல், மொழி, இனம், மதம் பாகுபாடு இல்லாத உங்கள் ஒவ்வொருவரையும் பாதம் தொட்டு வணங்குகிறோம்.

Publisher’s rating: FAKE