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Kashmiri's took out to the syreets in Thousands, to liberate their homeland from India; today. Despite total black… https://t.co/SPZl1jEt5K — Rubina Aziz (@Rubina55Aziz) 1565191665000

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@MajerAbdul That's right - kashmiri women protesting in 2018 for a decision made in 2019. Only the followers of the… https://t.co/T4e5cncO35 — fuck you (@YouBiasedFucks) 1565249765000

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A video showing a lot of women marching is being shared by many social media users, on Facebook and Twitter, with a claim that Kashmiri women came out on the streets in thousands to liberate their homeland from India.The video is being shared to imply that the procession happened after the Indian government repealed“Despite total black out on media and internet, this video was sent by one of the patriots, who requested it be spread all over the world,” wrote Twitter user @Rubina55Aziz while sharing the video.It was shared by many on Facebook with the same claim.The claim is false. The video being used to make the claim is from December last year, when Kashmiri locals took to the streets in large numbers to protest three LeT terrorists being taken down by the security forces. ‘Azadi’ slogans were chanted to demand freedom from India.Times Fact Check analyzed the video posted by Aziz but found that its audio was not clear.We then broke the video into different frames using Google Chrome’s InVid extension.On running reverse-image search on Google on one of the key frames extracted using InVid, we found the same video with much better audio quality on Linkedin. In this version of the video, 'Azadi' chants could be heard clearly. The video was posted with a caption saying, “This is what womens’ empowerment looks like.”One of the comments to the video by Waqar Ahmad Jamali read that “They are, They are demanding freedom from India, they are announcing WE WANT FREEDOM.”Taking a cue from this, we used keywords such as ‘Kashmir women azadi protest’ on YouTube and found a video uploaded on December 15, 2018.On closely analysing the video, we identified a name board. We then used InVid's magnify tool to see what's written. It read ‘Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Hajin’.Then we searched for news reports about protests in Hajin in December 2018. This led us to an Indian Express report about three LeT terrorists killed in an encounter on December 9, 2018.After this, we simply searched on Twitter with keywords ‘Hajin kashmir’ and found this tweet.The Twitter user debunked the same video posted by another Twitter user Abdul. This tweet had an image link of stock photography company Alamy.On browsing Alamy, we found a photo that captured the same name board that said ‘Baramulla Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Hajin’.It was captioned “Women march to attend the funeral of teenage militants in Hajin area of north Kashmir some 35 kilometers from.”Times Fact Check has found the video posted with the claim that Kashmiris are protesting against abrogation of Article 370, and to liberate themselves from India, to be an old video from December 2018 when Kashmiris took to the streets to attend the funeral procession of a slain terrorist.