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[hector enrique]

'Six Inuit who were snatched from their families in Greenland and taken to 70 years ago are demanding compensation from Copenhagen for a lost childhood.

In 1951, 22 children from its former colony away from their families, promising them a better life and the chance to return to Greenland as part of a new Danish-educated elite.

Six survivors of the 22, now in their 70s, are each demanding €33,600 (?8,200) as compensation in a letter to the Danish prime minister.

“They lost their families, their language, their culture and their sense of belonging,” their counsel, Mads Pramming, told the newspaper Politiken.

Once they returned to , they were placed in orphanages even though they had parents. Many of them lost touch with their families completely.'

[hector enrique]

'Protests broke out in Nuuk in November when an Inuit woman’s newborn daughter was forcibly removed from her arms by social workers in Denmark because she had failed a controversial “parenting competency” test while pregnant. Critics say the test, which is used in child welfare investigations, makes no allowance for the huge cultural differences between Danes and the Inuit. The test, which is known as FKU, is only used in Denmark, which is home to about 17,000 people from Greenland.

Up to 460 Inuit children may have been wrongly removed from their families as a result of the test, the Danish government admitted last month. Copenhagen also acknowledged that the test was flawed and said that it would scrap it for cases involving Greenlandic families.

It was just the latest in a long history of mistreatment of the Inuit people by the Danish state. In the 1960s and 1970s, under a Danish government programme, large numbers of young Inuit women, many of them still children, had intrauterine devices, also known as IUD coils, fitted into their wombs without their consent. The aim was to bring down the island’s birth rate.

In the 1950s and 1970s, a Danish “modernisation” project resulted in Inuit villagers being forcibly relocated to newly built tower blocks, a move that is believed to have caused a surge in suicides and alcoholism. In 1951, more than 20 children were also removed from their homes in Greenland and sent to Denmark, where the authorities tried unsuccessfully to mould them into “little Danes”.'

[SouthpawRight]

Let the people of Greenland vote. I have heard each person will get a welcome to the USA 10,000 check plus a share of Greenland resources which the Danes have little ability to harness. Become a territory of the USA. Perhaps become part of the state of Alaska.

euroids are being shortsighted and petty

denmark is too weak to keep greenland

I guess euroidstan rather Greenland fall under Chinese or Russian influence

'Six Inuit who were snatched from their families in Greenland and taken to 70 years ago are demanding compensation from Copenhagen for a lost childhood.

In 1951, 22 children from its former colony away from their families, promising them a better life and the chance to return to Greenland as part of a new Danish-educated elite.

Six survivors of the 22, now in their 70s, are each demanding €33,600 (?8,200) as compensation in a letter to the Danish prime minister.

“They lost their families, their language, their culture and their sense of belonging,” their counsel, Mads Pramming, told the newspaper Politiken.

Once they returned to , they were placed in orphanages even though they had parents. Many of them lost touch with their families completely.'

denmark supposed to be rich right

35k compensation for ruining a childhood isn’t sht

[hector enrique]

BattlingNelson care to explain the above? why are you stealing babies from greenland and sterilising the mothers?

[hector enrique]

They like our money, healthcare, education, social security though. And we like them. They are a part of us. You shouldn’t worry. They actually wanna stay within the kingdom.

'Among the most vocal critics of Danish policies is Pele Broberg, the leader of Naleraq, an opposition party that is pushing hard for independence. “We have nothing in common with Denmark. Nothing. We don’t have the same culture. We don’t have the same language. Nothing. What we have is systemic racism,” Broberg, a former foreign minister, said at his office in Greenland’s parliament, a small, two-storey building near Nuuk’s icy harbour.

Amid a row between Europe and the United States over President Trump’s threat to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, it is hard to find anyone in Nuuk who sympathises with . Some, like Broberg, barely bother to disguise their satisfaction at the predicament in which Greenland’s former colonial master now finds itself and its discomfort at the prospect of losing its Arctic ***el to Trump.'


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[SouthpawRight]

BattlingNelson care to explain the above? why are you stealing babies from greenland and sterilising the mothers?

I thought northern euroids pride themselves on human rights

'Among the most vocal critics of Danish policies is Pele Broberg, the leader of Naleraq, an opposition party that is pushing hard for independence. “We have nothing in common with Denmark. Nothing. We don’t have the same culture. We don’t have the same language. Nothing. What we have is systemic racism,” Broberg, a former foreign minister, said at his office in Greenland’s parliament, a small, two-storey building near Nuuk’s icy harbour.

Amid a row between Europe and the United States over President Trump’s threat to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, it is hard to find anyone in Nuuk who sympathises with . Some, like Broberg, barely bother to disguise their satisfaction at the predicament in which Greenland’s former colonial master now finds itself and its discomfort at the prospect of losing its Arctic ***el to Trump.'


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love it American money funding social unrest in Greenland and fueling separatist sentiment

[BattlingNelson]

BattlingNelson care to explain the above? why are you stealing babies from greenland and sterilising the mothers?

If you really are interested in this old story, you can read a bit here popularized in a way so that even you may be able to grasp the essence.

[BattlingNelson]

I thought northern euroids pride themselves on human rights

love it American money funding social unrest in Greenland and fueling separatist sentiment

Doesn't matter. It's textbook counterproductive. A united front of all party leaders in Greenland called Trump not trustworthy.

[IceTrayDaGang]

still aint receive my $5k so i dont know about this guy yet.

[BattlingNelson]

I wonder where Greenlanders want to be associated with: