{"id":38666,"date":"2019-06-15T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=38666"},"modified":"2019-06-16T00:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T19:00:26","slug":"false-rumours-of-people-being-killed-for-illegal-organ-trade-revived-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-rumours-of-people-being-killed-for-illegal-organ-trade-revived-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"False rumours of people being killed for illegal organ trade revived on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rumour viral on social media claims that organ smugglers are killing innocents to sell their body parts. The message circulating in Telugu claims that 500 people travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand, disguised as beggars, are killing people to sell their bodies and kidneys to medical colleges and illegal organ trade businesses. The rumour suggests that six to seven perpetrators have been caught by the police.<\/p>\n

Following is the Telugu text of the message – “\u0c12\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c38\u0c3e \u0c28\u0c41\u0c02\u0c1a\u0c3f \u0c08 \u0c30\u0c4b\u0c1c\u0c41 \u0c05\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f\u0c28 \u0c38\u0c2e\u0c3e\u0c1a\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c02 \u0c0f\u0c2e\u0c3f\u0c1f\u0c02\u0c1f\u0c47,,,\u0c2c\u0c40\u0c39\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c4d \u0c28\u0c41\u0c02\u0c1a\u0c3f \u0c1c\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c4d\u0c16\u0c02\u0c21\u0c4d \u0c2e\u0c27\u0c4d\u0c2f\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c2c\u0c3f\u0c1a\u0c4d\u0c1a\u0c17\u0c3e\u0c33\u0c4d\u0c33 \u0c35\u0c47\u0c37\u0c02\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c12\u0c15 500 \u0c35\u0c02\u0c26\u0c32 \u0c2e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f \u0c2c\u0c2f\u0c32\u0c41\u0c26\u0c47\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41..\u0c2e\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c4d\u0c17\u0c2e\u0c27\u0c4d\u0c2f\u0c02\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c12\u0c02\u0c1f\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c17\u0c3e \u0c26\u0c4a\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c15\u0c3f\u0c28 \u0c35\u0c3e\u0c33\u0c4d\u0c33\u0c28\u0c41 \u0c1a\u0c02\u0c2a\u0c3f \u0c2e\u0c46\u0c21\u0c3f\u0c15\u0c32\u0c4d \u0c15\u0c3e\u0c32\u0c47\u0c1c\u0c40\u0c32\u0c15\u0c41,,\u0c2e\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c2f\u0c41 \u0c15\u0c3f\u0c21\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c40 \u0c32 \u0c26\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3e \u0c32\u0c15\u0c41 \u0c38\u0c30\u0c2b\u0c30\u0c3e \u0c1a\u0c47\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c24\u0c41\u0c28\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41…\u0c35\u0c40\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c32\u0c4b 6,7 \u0c2e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f \u0c2a\u0c1f\u0c4d\u0c1f\u0c41 \u0c2c\u0c21\u0c3f\u0c28\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41…\u0c06 6,7 \u0c2e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f\u0c28\u0c3f \u0c35\u0c3f\u0c1a\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c3f\u0c38\u0c4d\u0c24\u0c47 \u0c35\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41 \u0c2e\u0c47\u0c2e\u0c41 \u0c15\u0c3e\u0c15 \u0c07\u0c02\u0c15\u0c3e 500 \u0c35\u0c02\u0c26\u0c32 \u0c2e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f \u0c09\u0c28\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c3e\u0c02 \u0c05\u0c28\u0c3f \u0c12\u0c2a\u0c4d\u0c2a\u0c41\u0c15\u0c41\u0c28\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c41…\u0c05\u0c02\u0c26\u0c41\u0c15\u0c47 \u0c2c\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c26\u0c30\u0c4d\u0c38\u0c4d \u0c0e\u0c02\u0c24 \u0c35\u0c40\u0c32\u0c48\u0c24\u0c47 \u0c05\u0c02\u0c24 \u0c2e\u0c02\u0c26\u0c3f\u0c15\u0c3f \u0c08 \u0c2e\u0c46\u0c38\u0c47\u0c1c\u0c4d \u0c28\u0c3f \u0c2e\u0c40,,\u0c2e\u0c40 ,,\u0c2e\u0c3f\u0c24\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c41\u0c32\u0c15\u0c41 \u0c35\u0c3e\u0c1f\u0c4d\u0c38\u0c3e\u0c2a\u0c4d \u0c07\u0c24\u0c30\u0c24\u0c4d\u0c30\u0c3e \u0c26\u0c4d\u0c35\u0c3e\u0c30\u0c3e \u0c1a\u0c47\u0c30\u0c35\u0c47\u0c2f\u0c17\u0c32\u0c30\u0c41. (There are reports from Odisha that 500 people disguised as beggars are travelling between Bihar and Jharkhand. On the way, they are killing people whom they find lonely and supplying bodies to medical colleges and kidney businesses. Six-seven people have been arrested. After interrogation they revealed that they are about 500, so please forward this message to all family members and\u00a0social media platforms on an urgent basis.)”<\/em><\/p>\n

The message seems to be widely shared on WhatsApp, however, Alt News was able to locate a few on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> as well. A video shared along with the message shows dismembered bodies laid out in a room.<\/p>\n

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The same message is also being circulated with photographs of men being escorted by the police. These images had led to mob\u00a0lynchings in southern states last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Message also viral in Hindi<\/h2>\n

The same message is also circulating in Hindi<\/a> with a similar set of images.<\/p>\n

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The message reads,\u00a0“\u0909\u0921\u093c\u0940\u0938\u093e \u0938\u0947 \u0906\u091c \u0916\u092c\u0930 \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u091d\u093e\u0930\u0916\u0902\u0921 \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u092d\u093f\u0916\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u0947\u0938 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u093e\u0902\u091a \u0938\u094c \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u0928\u093f\u0915\u0932\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u094b \u0930\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091c\u094b \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0909\u0938\u0915\u094b \u0915\u093e\u091f\u0915\u0930 \u0915\u0932\u0947\u091c\u0947 \u0914\u0930 \u0915\u0940\u0921\u0928\u0940 \u0928\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u093f\u0938\u092e\u0947 \u0938\u0947 \u091b\u0903 \u0938\u093e\u0924 \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u0947 \u0917\u090f \u0939\u0948 .\u091c\u094b \u092a\u0915\u0921\u0947\u093c \u0917\u090f \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u0935\u0939\u0940 \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u0915\u094b \u0915\u0921\u0940\u093c \u092a\u0941\u091b\u0924\u093e\u091b \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0926 \u092a\u093e\u0902\u091a \u0938\u094c \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u0906\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u093e\u0924 \u0915\u092c\u0941\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u0907\u0938\u0932\u093f\u090f \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0908\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u092e\u0947\u0938\u0947\u091c \u0915\u094b \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u091c\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0930\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0947\u0902\u092c\u0930 \u0939\u0948 \u0938\u092c\u0915\u094b \u092b\u0949\u0930\u0935\u0930\u094d\u0921 \u0915\u0940\u091c\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u0907\u0938\u092e\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0935\u093f\u0921\u092f\u094b \u092d\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u094b \u092b\u0947\u0938\u092c\u0941\u0915 \u0907\u091c\u093e\u091c\u0924 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u0947\u0924\u093e (There are reports emerging from Odisha that 500 people disguised as beggars are travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand. Whoever they come across is killed, and the kidney and liver are removed. Six-seven people have been arrested. After interrogation, they revealed that they are about 500 so please forward this message to all family members. There is a video too which Facebook is not giving permission to upload.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The same message is also being shared<\/a> with the video of mutilated bodies.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Video<\/h3>\n

Alt News had debunked<\/a> this message last year. However, it was not circulated along with the video which is currently viral. Breaking down the video into multiple keyframes and reverse-searching individual images on Yandex revealed that the video has been doing rounds on social media at least since 2017<\/a>. It has been shared in varied foreign languages.<\/p>\n

In March 2019, Agence France-Presse (AFP<\/em>) had fact-checked<\/a> a photograph depicting the same events shown in the video. It was then viral as, “<\/b>kidnapping syndicates in the Philippines targeting people for their organs.”\u00a0<\/em>The image had over 1.3 lakh shares.<\/p>\n

AFP <\/em>cited an article on a website gorebrasil.com<\/a>, <\/em>published on January 18, 2017, which carried the same video. According to the Portuguese article translated by AFP, <\/em>a riot had broken out in Alca\u00e7uz prison in Brazil on January 14, 2017. The people in the video are conversing in Portuguese with a Northeast Brazilian accent.<\/p>\n

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At the 20-second mark in the video, a man can be spotted wearing a t-shirt that says, “Pol\u00edcia Civil”<\/i>, which is Portuguese for ‘civil police’ in Brazil.<\/p>\n

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On January 14, a riot between rival gangs had broken out in Alca\u00e7uz prison which led to the death of at least 30 inmates. Gory images of decapitated bodies were seen in the aftermath of the violence. The incident was widely covered by international media, including The Guardian<\/a>, AFP<\/a>, Al Jazeera <\/a><\/em>and BBC<\/a>, <\/em>among others.<\/p>\n

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“Members of a drug gang started the clash by invading a pavilion in the Alca\u00e7uz prison where rivals rested, Rio Grande do Norte state\u2019s security secretariat said on Sunday,”<\/em> reported\u00a0The Guardian.\u00a0<\/em>In January 2018, at least 140 inmates had died in gang warfare in the prison.<\/p>\n

“The gangs were believed to be fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes,”<\/em> reported\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>. “Decapitations and mutilations are common in Brazil\u2019s violent, overcrowded prisons, in which 40 per cent of inmates have yet to be sentenced, but the latest wave of brutality has appalled many here,”<\/em> it furthered.<\/p>\n

While Alca\u00e7uz prison authorities were unresponsive to\u00a0AFP’s\u00a0<\/em>queries about the origin of the video, similar imagery of mutilated bodies were reported in mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Photographs<\/h3>\n

The set of images currently viral has been debunked by Alt News several times in the past<\/a>. They are now viral<\/a> with a different claim that suggests that a gang of child-kidnappers, who sell body parts in an organ trade racket, are on a prowl in Gujarat. This message is circulating in Gujarati.<\/p>\n

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These images have been floating on social media since last year and were debunked by Kannada newspaper Prajavani<\/a>. <\/em>The media outlet quoted the Karnataka police who said that the images are 3-4 years old. The police had appealed to people to not believe such rumours circulating on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

Rumours of kidnappers targeting children for their organs took at least 31 lives<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0mob-lynchings across the country in the past two years. Such rumours are region-specific, which means that they are circulated in the language familiar to a particular state. Social media users are advised to look for media reports verifying the rumours. The absence of the same is a clear indication that the messages are carrying unverified information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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