A video showing an injured woman being rescued from a camp by military personnel has gone viral on social media, claiming that Hindu women from India and Bangladesh are being held as sex slaves by the Islamic State (ISIS). The video has been purportedly shared as evidence of the claim made in the film The Kerala Story of Hindu women being abducted from India into sex slavery by ISIS.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “ISIS Tent, Army attack Rescued 38 Sex Slavery Women From India and Bangladesh, Majority Hindu Girls”
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be MISLEADING.
Performing a Reverse Image Search, we traced a news report carrying glimpses of the viral video on September 6, 2022. According to the report, the video shows women rescued from the Al-Hol refugee camp, which was previously under the control of ISIS. The operation to liberate the women was carried out by the YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit), an all-female militia unit of the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces).
The report also carries an extended YouTube video, dated September 6, 2022, uploaded on SDF Press. However, neither the report nor the YouTube video mentions that the women rescued in the video were of Indian, Bangladeshi or Hindu descent.
According to a statement by the United States Central Command website, dated September 18, 2022, the YPJ Forces announced the completion of a security operation in the Al-Hol camp. The statement mentioned that the rescued six women had been enslaved and subjected to torture by ISIS. It was noted that some of these women had been captured as children. However, the statement did not provide specific details about the identities or backgrounds of the victims.
Searching further, we identified a Twitter thread by the Information and Documentation Department of the YPJ, which includes the viral video and provides additional information about the rescue operation. It states that the women in the viral video are Yezidi, a Kurdish minority group. However, no mention was found regarding women of South Asian descent within the thread.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that an old video of the rescue of Yezidi women from an ISIS camp is shared with misleading claims.
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