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Published on Jun 28, 2015, 9:32 pm AST
By Alexander Bruzual
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A SHORT video which was being shared on social media yesterday, showing three children training with assault rifles, has raised some eyebrows as questions were raised as to whether the footage had been shot in Trinidad and Tobago.
This concern was due to the fact that the individual who is recording the video is speaking in an accent which closely resembles a Trinidadian accent.
The video is one minute and thirty seconds long, and shows three male children training to use assault rifles while being instructed by the man recording the footage.
The first child who is seen in the footage runs in the direction of an unknown target and proceeds to fire five shots.
When he was walking back, the man who is recording the video says : “this fella…run back you doh walk back! Yih hadda run back! Run back!”
The accent the man spoke in appeared to sound Trinidadian.
The boy listens and runs back to an area where other children are waiting to shoot their guns.
The video then shows a slightly older boy running out in what appears to be Middle Eastern garb, before firing several shots. This boy then returns to the safety of a shelter before a third boy is instructed to run out and fire the weapon.
Many people questioned whether the video was shot in Trinidad or whether it was shot in a Middle Eastern country.
On Facebook persons noted that due to the garb worn by the children, as well as surroundings in the background that the video is most likely not shot in this country.
Other persons noted that the background did bear a passing resemblance to structures in west Trinidad, and noted that based on the calibre of weapons being seized recently in this country, as reported by the media, it was possible that the video was filmed in this country, or at the very least, similar situations could be taking place locally.
This is not the first time a “Trini” accent has been heard in a video.
Last year, a video purporting to show Islamic insurgents playing with the head of a decapitated man in Syria, went viral and it featured a man talking with what appears to be a Trinidadian accent.
The video, entitled “21+....Graphic and Disgusting...Foreign terrorists (English speaker) in Syria playing with the head of a Syrian citizen after they beheaded him”, is 47 seconds long.
In 2014 a bureau of the US State department noted that T&T could be utilised as a transit point for potential terrorists or terrorist organisations.
The report said there are no known indigenous terrorist groups operating in T&T but “radical elements” from criminal gangs are thought to occasionally make contact with individuals and groups with possible terrorist ties around the world, and given the crime rate and some weak aspects of border control that are permissive for drug and weapons trafficking, T&T could be utilized as a transit point for potential terrorists or terrorist organizations.