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Between the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD) by Danish doctors that most of them knew nothing about. They were neither asked for permission nor informed about its purpose. Many of the women were under the age of 12. The objective, according to several studies, was to curb the population growth in Greenland, to prevent an escalating financial burden on Denmark. The case became known as the “Spiral Case,” after the shape of the coil, which some victims reported was quite painful. Many of these women had an IUD for years without knowing its purpose, and they never understood why they could not have children. The exact number of victims remains unknown. In September 2022, a joint commission consisting of Danish and Greenlandic scholars was formed to investigate the matter.
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In the 1950s, Inuit children, aged between five and nine, from various villages in Greenland were taken from their families and sent to Copenhagen to learn Danish. The goal was not only to teach them the language of the mother country, but to train them as a small elite capable of governing their island and guiding it toward modernity. The brightest and most promising children were selected for this purpose. They spent two years in Denmark, and upon returning, some could no longer speak with their parents, having forgotten their native language. They returned to their country, but not to their villages; instead, they were placed in a kind of orphanage for further re-education, which lasted several more years. Over time, many of these children became lost, turning to alcohol or begging on the frozen streets of Nuuk, uprooted and aimless. Others ended up marrying Danes. In September 2022, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen publicly apologized in front of six of these children, now elderly, the only ones still alive at the time. “What you were subjected to was terrible; it was inhumane, it was unfair, and it was heartless,” she told them
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@jeremymiller7385 Greenland should never join U$. Look at Hawaii native , only have very little share of resources. Which suppose to own 100% by them. Capitalism is nightmare for native by default.
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@agffans5725 Greenland should never join U$. Look at Hawaii native , only have very little share of resources. Which suppose to own 100% by them. Capitalism is nightmare for native by default.
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