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Greenland to open truth commission over forced contraception scheme

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologised to victims last year
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (left) apologised to victims last year. © Mads Claus Rasmussen, Ritzau Scanpix, AFP

Greenland's government said Friday it would ⁠establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shed light on a campaign of forced contraception carried out by Danish authorities from the 1960s to 1990, after experts failed to agree on whether the practice constituted genocide. The brutal campaign saw thousands of Indignous women and girls receive intrauterine devices or contraceptive injections without their consent.

Greenland said Friday it would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Denmark's forced contraception of thousands of indigenous Inuits, after experts failed to agree on whether the scheme constituted "genocide".

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