{"id":55031,"date":"2019-12-28T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=55031"},"modified":"2019-12-28T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T11:02:31","slug":"old-video-of-railway-station-vandalised-in-bangladesh-shared-as-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-railway-station-vandalised-in-bangladesh-shared-as-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of railway station vandalised in Bangladesh shared as Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of people vandalising a railway station has been shared on social media with the claim that the miscreants are Bangladeshi refugees and the incident took place in Kolkata. The accompanying caption reads,\u00a0<em>&#8220;This scene from Kolkata, these are Bangladesh Refugees, they don&#8217;t have any citizenship, if they dare to do this even without citizenship what happens after giving them Citizenship, God bless our Country.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rashmi.r.chandra\/videos\/10214801113213861\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/rashmi.r.chandra\/videos\/10214801113213861\/\"><p>This scene from Kolkata, these are Bangladesh Refugees, they don&#8217;t have any citizenship, if they dare to do this even without citizenship what happens after giving them Citizenship, God bless our Country \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<p>_Forwarded<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rashmi.r.chandra\">Rashmi R Chandra<\/a> on Tuesday, 24 December 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video is viral on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=his%20scene%20from%20Kolkata%2C%20these%20are%20Bangladesh%20Refugees%2C%20they%20don%27t%20have%20any%20citizenship&amp;epa=SERP_TAB&amp;redirect=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55032 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bd740eb6-6714-41f6-9580-54c1e3fdff13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bd740eb6-6714-41f6-9580-54c1e3fdff13.png 814w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bd740eb6-6714-41f6-9580-54c1e3fdff13-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bd740eb6-6714-41f6-9580-54c1e3fdff13-768x600.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News has also received multiple verification requests on its <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews&amp;hl=en_IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55046 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1630\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1.png 1630w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-1024x253.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-768x189.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-1536x379.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-990x244.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/75e87a2f-595e-4669-841d-b0afc30c54e1-1320x326.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Video from Bangladesh<\/h2>\n<p>At certain points in the video, the name of the railway station &#8216;\u09ac\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b9\u09cd\u09ae\u09a3\u09ac\u09be\u09dc\u09bf\u09df\u09be&#8217; (Brahmanbaria) is visible. A quick Google search reveals that the station is located in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55034 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bca15645-6089-4577-9932-41b46508cf11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bca15645-6089-4577-9932-41b46508cf11.png 876w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bca15645-6089-4577-9932-41b46508cf11-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/bca15645-6089-4577-9932-41b46508cf11-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A keyword search on Google &#8211; &#8216;Brahmanbaria railway station vandalism&#8217; &#8211; led us reports by Bangladeshi media outlets in 2016. A similar image was found in<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daily-sun.com\/printversion\/details\/106641\/6-cases-filed-over-B%E2%80%99baria-mayhem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Sun<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which reported,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Six cases have been filed against some 5,000 people in connection with Tuesday\u2019s violence in Brahmanbaria district town over the death of a madrasah student in a triangular clash.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55036 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/c5faeecc-47e1-4b9e-b362-612494a14646.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/c5faeecc-47e1-4b9e-b362-612494a14646.png 692w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/c5faeecc-47e1-4b9e-b362-612494a14646-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a January 13, 2016 report by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/backpage\/mayhem-bbaria-201109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Star<\/a>, &#8220;Armed with bamboo sticks and iron rods, they [madrasa students] vandalised Brahmanbaria Railway Station, removed fishplates of railway tracks, ransacked an Awami League office and set fire to a police van, said witnesses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A three-year-old video from Bangladesh is therefore being shared on social media as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/backpage\/mayhem-bbaria-201109\">Bangladeshi refugees vandalising a railway station in Kolkata, West Bengal\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of people vandalising a railway station has been shared on social media with the claim that the miscreants are Bangladeshi refugees and the incident took place in Kolkata. The accompanying caption reads,\u00a0&#8220;This scene from Kolkata, these are Bangladesh Refugees, they don&#8217;t have any citizenship, if they dare to do this even without citizenship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":55048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-55031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design-2019-12-28T162843.491.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55050,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55031\/revisions\/55050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=55031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}