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Danish PM To Apologise To Victims Of Greenland Forced Contraception

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called the forced contraception programme a 'dark chapter' in Denmark's ties with Greenland (Credit: AFP)

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has arrived in Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland for a ceremony Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades.

After landing, Frederiksen said in a post to social media that the apology constituted an "important marking" of a "dark chapter in our shared history".

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