A Town Betrayed ( no, Byen som kunne ofres, hr, Grad koji se mogao žrtvovati, Izdani grad) is a 2010 Norwegian documentary about the prelude of the Srebrenica massacre (1995), written and directed by journalists Ola Flyum and David Hebditch and produced by Fenris Films,

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, among others. It was shown on NRK's Brennpunkt on 26 April 2011 and SVT on 28 August 2011. The film was described by director Ola Flyum in an April 26, 2011 '' Dagsavisen'' interview as follows: The documentary has received criticism from journalist associations, the

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, and the foreign minister of

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. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee filed a complaint with the

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regarding citing sources. The PFU concluded that

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Town Betrayed, A Documentary films about war Works about the Bosnian War Norwegian documentary films 2011 television films 2011 films 2011 in Norwegian television 2011 in Swedish television Srebrenica massacre Bosnian genocide denial Historical revisionism Historical negationism Documentary films about the Bosnian genocide Cultural depictions of Radovan Karadžić Cultural depictions of Ratko Mladić