“Video showing Christians being massacred in Afghanistan”
What FACTLY found
The video is from Iraq and not Afghanistan. The visuals show ISIS fighters executing Shias in mass graves in 2014. According to a 2015 article by the Guardian, Afghanistan had been listed as one of the worst places to be a Christian in the world. Ever since, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there are reports that Taliban made a hit list of known Christians to pursue and kill; some Christians are reportedly escaping to the hills in attempts to find safety. But the video is not related to t...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 18 September 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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