This video has circulated online since 2015 in reports about a protest in Indian-administered Kashmir
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- Published on December 23, 2020 at 08:10
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- By AFP India
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The one-minute six-second video was shared here on Facebook on December 10, 2020. It has been viewed more than 54,000 times.
The post’s Hindi-language caption translates to English as: “See the seditious side of the farmers' agitation in this one-minute video. Kashmir will become Pakistan, Punjab will become Khalistan”.
The people in the video can also be heard chanting: “Kashmir will become Pakistan” and “Punjab will become Khalistan”.
Khalistan is a Sikh political ideology that calls for an independent homeland for Indian Sikhs.
The misleading post was shared as farmers in India demonstrated against new agriculture laws, as AFP reported here.
The video was also shared here, here, here and here on Facebook and here, here, here and here on Twitter, alongside an identical claim.
The claim is false.
A reverse image search on Google of keyframes extracted from the video in the misleading posts found a longer version of the video published here on YouTube on October 18, 2015.
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