Around half of fertile women in the Arctic Island were fitted with IUDs or given hormone birth control shots.
From the 1960’s and into the early 1990’s, Denmark imposed an inhuman sterilization program on Greenlandic Inuit women, with the purpose of limiting population growth in the self-governing territory.
Now, against the background of Donald J. Trump’s decision to control the island, the Danish are under fire for their mistreatment of the indigenous populations.
Two separate reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls are divided over a core question: does it constitute genocide?
Associated Press reported:
“The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but, when pressed by journalists during a news conference, would not say whether its leaders concluded whether a genocide had occurred. The government told the authors to use the definition under the United Nations’ 1948 genocide convention, which includes ‘imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group’.
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