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Truth commission for Sami, Kven finds support in Norwegian Parliament

By Elisabeth Bergquist, High North News June 14, 2017
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The majority of the Norwegian Parliament’s Control and Constitutional Standing Committee supports a suggestion about setting up a truth commission in order to investigate the ‘Norsification’ that Sami and Kven people had to go through for about a century, starting in the mid-1800s.

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