Denmark’s dark history with Greenland: Children torn from their families and women forcibly fitted with IUDs
Historical grievances and a sense of unfair treatment are among the complaints voiced by the inhabitants of the island, which Trump seeks to control
In the 1950s, around 20 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.
