6 native Greenlanders that were sent out to landmass Denmark as kids as component of a fallen short social experiment are looking for settlement from the Danish State.
In 1951, 22 Inuit kids were divided from their family members and also required to Denmark. They had actually been assured a far better life and also an education and learning in Danish to develop Greenland” s future elite.
Greenland was a Danish nest till 1953, prior to slowly getting the condition of an independent area.
6 of the survivors, that are currently in their 70’s, have actually each asked for EUR33,600 in settlement in a letter to Head of state Mette Frederiksen.
” They shed their domesticity, their language, their society and also their feeling of belonging,” their legal representative Mads Pramming informed Politiken daily on Monday.
” This is an infraction of their right to exclusive and also domesticity, based on Post 8 of the European Convention on Civil Rights,” he included.
Pramming states he will certainly submit a claim if the federal government does not react within 2 weeks.
” We prepare to head to court if the state does not pay,” he stated.
In Denmark, the kids were robbed of call with their family members.
When they returned to their homeland, they were positioned in an orphanage, although they were not orphans. A lot of them never ever saw their family members once again.
In December, the Danish head of state provided an official apology.
” We can not alter what occurred. Yet we can take duty and also apologise to those we ought to have looked after yet stopped working to do” Frederiksen stated.
Yet according to the priest of get-togethers, the apology was not always meant to cause monetary settlement.
” The federal government and also I think that recognizing the blunders of the past is crucial and also it is essential that we gain from these blunders of the previous to make sure that background does not duplicate itself,” Astrid Krag informed Politiken.
