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The government of Swaziland has stopped filming on a Warner Bros. production, “Scorpio,” starring Dolph Lundgren, Swazi Tourism Minister Derek von Wisell announced Friday. Wisell gave no reason for the ban, but according to government sources contacted by Reuters news service, objections arose over parts of the Rambo-like script, which depicts a conflict in Africa between black guerrillas and foreign mercenaries. Eleven members of the African National Congress, the main guerrilla group fighting for black majority rule in South Africa, have been killed in Swaziland this year, according to South Africa’s Institute for Strategic Studies. A Warners spokesman said the production will move to South African-ruled Namibia instead.