Fact Check: Video Of ‘Arms Recovered From Militants' Is From Myanmar, Not Manipur
A video showing weapons and cash, claimed to be seized from militants in Manipur by the Indian Army, is false. The video was actually filmed in Myanmar in April 2025.
The Verdict [False]
The video was filmed in April 2025 in Myanmar during the Chin Brotherhood’s capture of Falam, showing weapons seized from regime forces.
What is the claim?
A video showing a cache of weapons and cash displayed on a green surface is being widely circulated on social media, with users claiming it was recorded during a recent crackdown by the Indian Army on militants in Manipur.
One such post on X by user Jitendra Pratap Singh, who has a history of spreading misinformation, shared the viral video with a Hindi caption that roughly translates to: “Big Breaking. Indian Army has recovered a huge cache of arms and cash from militants in Manipur. See.” Archived versions of similar posts on X are available here, here, here, and here.
The video has also spread on Facebook with similar claims. Those posts are archived here, here, and here.
The video began circulating shortly after Indian security forces killed 10 armed insurgents and recovered weapons and ammunition on May 14 along the India-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Chandel district.
However, we found that the video is not related to Manipur, India. It was recorded in Myanmar and shows weapons seized by the Burma National Revolutionary Army.
What did we find?
A reverse image search of the viral video led to multiple Facebook posts from April 2025 (archived here, here, and here), featuring the same footage. The caption, written in Burmese, roughly translates to: “Ammunition and cash seized during the battle for Falam. #RedNewsAgency #REDNEWS #RNA.”
A closer examination of the video and related posts shows that the security personnel in the footage wear an emblem matching the logo of the Burma National Revolutionary Army (BNRA), an armed resistance group in Myanmar.
Additionally, a Google search led to a report by the Myanmar-based Tachileik News Agency that included a keyframe from the video. The report stated that on April 9, 2025, the Chin National Liberation Front announced the capture of Falam, a town in northern Chin State, Myanmar.
A Facebook post by Mandalay Free Press (archived here) included the same visuals and reported that Falam—the second-largest city in Chin State—was captured on April 7 following a five-month offensive by the Chin Brotherhood. The operation began on November 9, 2024, and culminated with the full takeover of the city by April 9, 2025. Chin Nationalists declared the area free from military control.
Since February 2021, Myanmar has been under military rule following a coup that ousted the democratically elected government.
A report by the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) also featured similar visuals and quoted a Chin Brotherhood spokesperson who said the group had seized numerous weapons, recovered bodies of regime soldiers, and captured several others.
These findings confirm that the video was recorded in Myanmar and is unrelated to any militant crackdown in Manipur, India.
The verdict
The viral video showing weapons and cash seized in Myanmar is being falsely shared as footage from a recent military operation in Manipur, India.
This report first appeared on logicallyfacts.com, and has been republished on ABP Live as part of a special arrangement. Apart from the headline, no changes have been made in the report by ABP Live.
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