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FYI, some Kurds have returned home from Sweden. Yesterday's news had a reportage about them, based on a reporter's traveling with this family to northern Iraq.
Although very likely influenced - if not for showing it at all, then at least the length - by the pro-Swedish sentiments showed, such as the naming of a school after Anna Lindh, it showed some real progress in the area. One of the main characters is a teacher and spoke briefly about differences in teaching and connected that to the different society, while noting that he had been elected to be educational advisor for the area (or similar).
They talked about democracy, traditions and experience. They were calm and hopeful, but pointed to the differences and explained briefly that it's a long road ahead. In the middle they suggested that they were bringing a part of the Swedish thinking over there.
They interviewed the family's two daughters who had grown up in Sweden but had followed them there, they were of mixed emotions.
The son of the family stayed in Sweden.
Martin
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