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Indigenous Greenlanders demand compensation from Denmark over failed colonial experiment
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Six indigenous Greenlanders who were sent to mainland Denmark as children as part of a failed social experiment are seeking compensation from the Danish State.
In 1951, 22 Inuit children were separated from their families and taken to Denmark. They had been promised a better life and an education in Danish to form Greenland's future elite.
Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953, before gradually acquiring the status of an autonomous territory.
Six of the survivors, who are now in their 70's, have each requested €33,600 in compensation in a letter to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
"They lost their family life, their language, their culture and their sense of belonging," their lawyer Mads Pramming told Politiken daily on Monday.
"This is a
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