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Denmark says sorry for taking Greenland children in 1950s social experiment

FILE PHOTO: The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen behind a building with social housings with a mural in Nuuk, Greenland, September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

Denmark's prime minister on Wednesday delivered a face-to-face apology to six living victims of a 1950s social experiment in which 22 Greenlandic children were taken from their families and sent to Denmark to be integrated into Danish society.

The Inuit children were between four and nine years old when they were shipped to Denmark, then the colonial power, in 1951 to try to re-educate them as "little Danes".

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