Video of the Myanmar national melee is misrepresented as internal struggles of the Bangladesh army

Bangladesh After the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorship on August 5, 2024, the powers of Army officials to enforce the law. The video was filmed in Myanmar and depicts the battle between two armed tribes and the northern territorial dispute. state.

“The Bangladesh army means a force in Bangladesh. The army lost its honor under the sponsorship of the Yunus gang of the illegal government,” the Bengali headlined by the Facebook post on January 29, 2025.

The post includes a 13-second video in which a group of uniforms and armed men fight it other.

Screenshot of fake posts taken on March 3, 2025

this video Since the fall of Hasina government (Archive link).

one The student-led uprising overthrew Hasina, who now lives in India, in August 2024. Her temporary government led by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus (Archive link).

The country’s interim government initially granted officials the power to the appointed military officers in September 2024. It has been extended twice since then (link to archive).

A joint force composed of officials from the country’s army, police, border guards and fast action battalions has been launching operations to recover guns lost from the police station since the August Revolution (a link to archive).

Videos of Army officials fighting each other are said to have spread elsewhere on Facebook – but it was shot in Myanmar, not Bangladesh.

National conflict in Myanmar

Google reverse image search found a More clear The video’s version was uploaded to YouTube on January 28, 2025 (Archive Link).

Myanmar subtitles say “They are fighting each other” which includes #army, #military and #Myanmar.

Further keyword searches found that longer videos were shared on Facebook (archive link) on January 27.

The text overlay on the video reads: “Territorial Dispute between Kia and TNLA (January 26, 2025, Monge Wei-Kssm).

The visuals start with the 6:07 markup of Facebook clips, corresponding to scenes in shots shared with False Posts.

Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) lead the battle against the Myanmar military government in northeastern Myanmar and the North Mountains state (Archive links here and here).

Local news media Mizzima reported that this melee broke out Namhpatka In Shanzhou, territorial dispute between two ethnic armed forces Group (Archive link).

People in the video shout “Don’t use your hands”, “Don’t touch me” and “You’re all drunk” Myanmar.

this The badges on the uniform match those on the Kia and TNLA Rebels (reserved here and here).

AFP Facts checked other misinformation about Bangladesh.