{"id":24137,"date":"2018-12-19T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=24137"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:05:57","slug":"not-a-picture-of-rohingyas-eating-hindus-it-is-a-tibetan-funeral-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/not-a-picture-of-rohingyas-eating-hindus-it-is-a-tibetan-funeral-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a picture of ‘Rohingyas eating Hindus’. It is a Tibetan funeral ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u0921\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0928\u0940 \u0916\u092c\u0930 – \u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0942 \u0915\u093e \u0915\u0924\u0932 \u0915\u0930 \u0909\u0928\u0915\u093e \u092e\u093e\u0938 \u0916\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0930\u094b\u0939\u093f\u0902\u0917\u094d\u092f\u093e, \u092e\u0947\u0935\u093e\u0924 \u0915\u093e \u092e\u093e\u092e\u0932\u093e, \u0916\u092c\u0930 \u0935\u093f\u091a\u0932\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0930 \u0938\u0915\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0948 (Horrfying News – Rohingyas are killing Hindus and eating their flesh, a case from Mewat, this news may send shivers down your spine -translated),” <\/em>read the headline of an article published by fake news website Dainik Bharat<\/a> on December 18, 2018. The article carried photographs depicting people dismembering dead bodies.<\/p>\n

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The report is introduced with a claim that mainstream media is suppressing this news but one local newspaper from Haryana has reported on the issue.<\/p>\n

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The Dainik Bharat<\/em> article also includes a Facebook post\u00a0by an individual<\/a> user who has shared a newspaper clip of Aaj Tak Gurgaon<\/em>. According to this clip, Rohingya refugees in Mewat, a Muslim dominated area of Haryana, are ‘eating Hindus’.<\/p>\n

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Alt News found the online version of the same report<\/a> which stated, “\u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0941\u0913\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u092e\u093e\u0902\u0938 \u0916\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0935\u093e\u0932\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0935\u093e\u0924 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0928\u093e\u0939 (Those who eat the flesh of Hindus have found refuge in Mewat -translated)”. <\/em>It must be noted that Aaj Tak Gurgaon<\/em> is not a part of India Today’s Aaj Tak<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Delhi High Court lawyer Prashant Patel Umrao<\/a> also tweeted a similar claim, terming Mewat ‘Mini Pakistan of Haryana’. On numerous occasions, Umrao has been caught spreading misinformation. A compilation of such instances<\/a> can be read here.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/ippatel\/status\/1074725443306106880?s=19<\/p>\n

Image is NOT of ‘Rohingyas eating Hindus’
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Using Google’s reverse image search, A blog post written in\u00a0October 2009<\/a> was one of the earliest instances of the image appearing on the internet. According to the blog, this image is representative of a funeral ritual of the Tibetan people who believe in donating their dead bodies to wild birds.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, we also found the same image posted by a Facebook page \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e30\u0e21\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e44\u0e1e\u0e23\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e22\u0e4c \u0e27\u0e23\u0e27\u0e13\u0e3a\u0e42\u0e13(Phramaha Paiwan)<\/em><\/a> on August 14, 2014 with the identical narrative. Another handle @damnitbennnnnn_<\/em><\/a> also tweeted the same image saying, “this is tibetan people’s ‘sky burial’.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Several YouTube videos of funeral rites held by the Tibetan people show dead bodies being chopped into pieces and fed to scavengers.<\/p>\n