According to the Swedish Turret Counties National Federation's (STR-T) feasibility study, 154 turrets were measured in sixteen villages and communities up to 1952 by Swedish race biologists.

Many sufferers are ashamed of what they have been exposed to, but STR-T has continued to push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Now the government is prepared to act on a broad front to investigate the abuses.

"There is an anger"

The Tornedal profile Bengt Niska believes that it is important for the entire region that both the extent and the performance of, for example, shell measurements are mapped and that measures are taken.

- It is clear that there is anger in it all and now everything will get a face. It will be documented how the shell measurements went to and in what way the population was involved. There were local authorities who took an active part in this so that race biology could be carried out, he says.

Niska was ashamed for speaking Finnish

Bengt Niska has not been measured, but he has been punished when he spoke Finnish in the Swedish school.

- This trauma must also be dealt with and the consequences of the language association should be highlighted. No Finnish was allowed to speak in the classrooms. You had to stand and be ashamed for using a Finnish word. Now, of course, it will be a big change.

How do you think the tower falls have been treated?

- The invisibility of us has been extremely prominent, but now it will turn out that we were here even before Sweden drew its boundaries. We towering counties will get redress, says Bengt Niska.