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A documentary shown by Turkey’s state broadcaster, TRT, earlier this week depicts Sweden as a barbarian land responsible for the genocide of Sami and Roma peoples. Sweden’s acts of ethnic cleansing are said to have continued until the 1980s. Kerstin Brunnberg from Sveriges Radio was interviewed in connection with the film. In the documentary her voice is dubbed into Turkish and she confirms Sweden’s systematic destruction of the Sami peoples. Brunnberg has described the interview as ‘absurd’. The film has come in for severe criticism from various quarters in Turkey. The Swedish embassy in Ankara and the Turkish foreign ministry have both criticised the content of the film, according to Sveriges Radio. TRT had planned to show the film a total of eight times but has now removed it from its schedule until further notice. (The Local,December 15, 2006)