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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

More civilians killed under NDA than UPA

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a post comparing civilian deaths under India’s UPA and NDA governments. FACTLY checked the figures in that comparison, distinguishing the post’s claimed totals from the totals it reported. For civilians, the post’s figures were 12 under the UPA and 210 under the NDA; the review instead gives 2,081 and 1,482, respectively. On those reported totals, the NDA figure is lower, not higher. The review says its UPA total comes from the Ministry of Home Affairs’ 2004–05 and 2013–14 annual reports, and its NDA total from a Lok Sabha answer. It characterizes the comparison in the post as wrong. The excerpt does not provide the underlying documents’ details, a breakdown of which incidents or categories were counted, or the specific period covered by the Lok Sabha answer beyond its comparison with the UPA’s ten years. The conclusion here is therefore limited to the figures and sourcing described in the review.

FACTLYWar & conflict

More terrorist attacks under NDA than UPA

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim is that terrorist attacks were more numerous under the NDA than under the UPA. FACTLY examines a Facebook post comparing figures for the two governments and checks its claim about total terrorist attacks against Ministry of Home Affairs annual reports. It treats “terror related incidents” as the measure in that comparison. The review reports 9,739 incidents under the UPA from 2004 to 2014, compared with 1,219 under the NDA from 2014 to 2018. On those reported totals, the UPA figure is higher, not the NDA figure. The review notes that 1,213 of the NDA-period incidents were in Jammu and Kashmir. It therefore rejects the claim that the NDA had more incidents. The time spans are unequal: the reported UPA total covers ten years, while the NDA total covers four. The review’s figures establish that the UPA’s total across its stated period is larger; they do not, by themselves, compare annual rates. The conclusion here is limited to the total-incident comparison and periods described in the excerpt.