Controversial: The video features child actor Iam Hamrick - who has defended M.I.A. - being shot at close range
Redheads are rounded up by police and forced to run across minefields
A controversial music video which features redheads being blown up as they run across a minefield has been banned by YouTube.
The promo for singer M.I.A.'s single Born Free shows ginger-haired people being rounded up by police and taken into the desert.
Then at gunpoint they are forced to cross the field covered in explosives.
The controversial video, directed by Romain Gavras - son of political film-maker Costa Gavras - also features scenes of nudity and a child being shot in the head.
Outraged: M.I.A. is unhappy her video is being censored and has redirected fans to her own website to watch it
A spokesman for the video website said: 'On YouTube the rules prohibit pornography or gratuitous violence. If the content breaks our terms then we remove it.
'And if a user repeatedly breaks the rules we disable their account.'
The footage is said to depict how minorities are treated by authoritative bodies.
And despite widespread criticism, the child shot at close range in the video - 12-year-old Ian Hamrick - has defended M.I.A, real name Maya Arulpragasam.
Speaking to TMZ.com, he said: 'The video is definitely not for kids - I haven't even seen the full video myself - but, for all the adults and people in different countries who are doing that (killing people) in real life... doing the genocides to whatever - Italians, Africans, wherever it's from, it's still genocide.'
'So it's (the video) showing violence to end violence.'
M.I.A. was outraged at the censorship of her video and has redirected fans to her own website where it is still posted.
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