{"id":65977,"date":"2023-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?p=65977"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:29:28","slug":"swedish-truth-commmission-state-and-church-must-apologise-to-tornedalians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/swedish-truth-commmission-state-and-church-must-apologise-to-tornedalians\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Truth Commmission: state and church must apologise to Tornedalians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Kvens, Tornedalians and Lantalaiset began its work in June 2020. On Wednesday, 15 November 2023, it submitted its final report to the Swedish government.<\/p><p>In the report, the commission stated that Sweden&#8217;s policy of assimilation &#8216;harmed the minority and continues to hinder the defence of its language, culture and traditional livelihoods,&#8217; as reported by The Local. &#8216;Amends must be made in order to move forward,&#8217; the report stated, and &#8216;acknowledging the historic wrongdoings should be a first step&#8217;. <\/p><p>The Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset, grouped together as Tornedalians, are a Finnic-speaking minority in northeastern Sweden and northwestern Finland. Currently, there are about 50,000 Tornedalians. In the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of Tornedalian children were taken to Swedish-speaking boarding schools and forbidden to use their language and traditional clothing.<\/p><p>The Swedish policy of assimilation affected also the Saami, and a separate report about Sweden&#8217;s policies towards them is to be submitted in 2025.<\/p><div class=\"my-12 my-md-16 px-4 pt-6  content-section\">\r\n    \n<ul class=\"is-style-links wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.com\/20231115\/sweden-should-apologise-to-tornedalian-minority-truth-commission-releases-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Sweden should apologise to Tornedalian minority&#8217;: Truth commission releases report (15.11.2023, The Local)<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs.fi\/ulkomaat\/art-2000009994367.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Totuuskomissio: Ruotsin valtion ja kirkon tulee pyyt\u00e4\u00e4 anteeksi me\u00e4n\u00adkieliselt\u00e4 v\u00e4est\u00f6lt\u00e4 (15.11.2023 Helsingin Sanomat, in Finnish)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recently published report, Sweden should issue a public apology to the country&#8217;s northern minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":36052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1096],"tags":[3464,3700,3701,3702],"class_list":["post-65977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2023-en","tag-sweden-en","tag-tornedalians-en","tag-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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