This video shows the funeral for a Kashmiri rebel killed in July 2016

The video was published in this Facebook post by a Tamil-language Facebook page on August 8, 2019.

It has been viewed more than 26,000 times and shared more than 1,900 times.

Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:

The Tamil-language caption translates to English as: “Due to Indian occupation of Kashmir, hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri people took to the streets yesterday to release their land from India... Since Indian media concealed such a big rally, one of the Kashmiris has requested this video to be shared with the world. So please share as much as possible.”

The post was published three days after India stripped Kashmir of the special autonomy it had for seven decades on August 5, 2019. Here is an AFP report on the situation. 

The same video was shared with a similar claim on Facebook here and here, where it has been viewed 10,000 times; and on YouTube here.

The claim is false; the video has previously circulated in media reports about a funeral march for a fallen Kashmiri rebel in 2016.

The one-minute, 47-second video features a mass of people in an open area, chanting in Urdu. Their chants can be translated to English as: “We will eventually take freedom, freedom is our right.”

Some of the protesters can also be seen holding Pakistani flags.

A reverse image search on Google of the video for a keyframe obtained using InVid found this slightly longer footage, posted on November 22, 2016, on Twitter.

The tweet says: “This video is dedicated to the lovers of #BurhanWani  must watch this a huge gathering in the funeral of Burhan. #FreeKashmir”.

— Azeem Wyne (@AzeemWyne) November 22, 2016

From the 0:13 mark to the end, the two-minute, four-second Twitter video corresponds with the footage in the misleading post.

Below is a screenshot comparison of the misleading video (L) and the video from the 2016 Twitter video (R):

Burhan Wani, commander of Kashmiri rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed on July 8, 2016, in a shootout with government forces in Jammu and Kashmir. Here is an AFP report about his death.

A keyword search found this YouTube video published on October 2016, titled: “A Sea Of People In The Funeral of Burhan Wani In Tral Kashmir”.

The same man can be seen filming the same funeral procession which is shown in the misleading video.

Below is a screenshot comparison of the man filming the video in the misleading posts (L) and the 2016 YouTube video (R):

A Google keyword search for Burhan Wani’s funeral on Google found multiple Getty Images photos published in July 2016 which corresponded with the video in the misleading post including here and here.

Below is a screenshot of the first photo published by Getty Images on July 9, 2016: