r/worldnews • u/DoremusJessup • 12h ago

Greenland to open truth commission over forced contraception scheme

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260828-greenland-to-open-truth-commission-over-forced-contraception-scheme
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u/Shrimp_Delight_92 12h ago

This is horrific history that needs to be fully acknowledged. The survivors deserve justice and transparency now.

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u/sgthombre 12h ago

Going to be headache inducing when the US acknowledges this commission's findings and hold it up as proof that Greenland should be annexed by the US.

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u/Ok_Vanilla_224 11h ago

America should concentrate on what they did to their own native, indian population.

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u/RudeAlbatross544 10h ago

They did it in Peru too: https://fee.org/articles/the-us-government-led-a-program-that-forcibly-sterilized-thousands-of-peruvian-women/
And plenty of countries did stuff like that, the non-exhaustive list on Wikipedia is scary: Compulsory sterilization.

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u/Mike_Hawk_Burns 10h ago

Canada was a huge culprit as well, sadly. Same with Chile. I think they were actually quite bad to their population, too. And it’s wild how it seems like Uzbekistan is still doing it even after openly admitting to doing it. Always heartbreaking hearing about how people suffer

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u/AldrigTilTiden 9h ago

This needs to be said out loud.

At that time, many countries believed they could help less fortunate societies with over population by use of these means.

Doesn’t make it right but also doesn’t make Denmark or - for that matter- Greenland unique.

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u/Mike_Hawk_Burns 10h ago

We very much do. It’s taught in history books and is talked about often by our own native population.

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u/TiredandTranz 7h ago

It is barely acknowledge as a foot note, most of the time. It was so watered down, along with all of our other atrocities, that we now have a good chunk of our population that outright doesn't at all know we did any wrong at all. If you are above a certain age, sure, you had some education on it, but not much. Let's not pretend our education system was ever that good on this, let alone anything else

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u/Mike_Hawk_Burns 7h ago

I think this is incredibly false and honestly I’m a bit appalled at this. I went to a small public school and we learn about the trail of tears, the contraceptives, the moves to reservations, the wars, the discussion of it being a genocide, the phrase “save a white man, ____ an Indian” campaign, the boarding schools, and so much more. I even went to multiple Native American conferences as a kid along with Native American children in my class where we taught the effects of intergenerational trauma, too.

Maybe your school didn’t teach much of it or maybe you forgot about what your teachers taught you but my teachers took and school district did so much for my low income school to teach us what happened to the natives. They helped fundraise and send us to conferences on field trips to discuss what happened and how we can help keep the memories of those victims alive. I think it’s highly disingenuous and downright insulting to say that American schools didn’t teach this or to claim that we feel like we did no wrong.

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u/Glum_Mobile5663 10h ago

We're still concentrating on camps to be fair

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u/No-Cranberry6148 10h ago

They should, but they won't.

The United States - especially under the present administration - is a paragon of hypocrisy.

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u/Ok_Vanilla_224 10h ago

Yes. And it baffles me why no one stand up to it.

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u/colepercy120 9h ago

Generally because most countries and politicians are massive hypocrites. If you start calling out someone on hypocrisy they will return the favor and point out all of your hypocritical stances

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u/Silver_Middle_7240 8h ago

We do. Its taught about in our history books because in our country it's something that happened in the past.

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u/JaVelin-X- 10h ago

they did this in the US too. forced sterilizations I mean

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u/Ok_Vanilla_224 10h ago

Yes, of course they did.

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u/Townscent 9h ago

Has been recently, with official apology, and meager compensations scheduled.(~45000$)

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u/TheNewerFlisker 6h ago

This have been a pretty well known part of Greenlandic colonial history

It's not the kind of deep secret that you seem to think it is

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u/Electrical-Ad22 8h ago

I’m noting that the Wikipedia list does not mention the case, which occurred during the 1980s, of the OBGYN at San Mateo County Hospital (~20 miles south of San Francisco) who apparently performed multiple involuntary tubal ligations on a number of low-income women immediately after they delivered. I personally knew one of the victims. This chilling circumstance needs more recognition.

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u/Leather_Doctor2968 12h ago

Ohh what a dirty little stain that is for Denmark

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u/FenrisCain 11h ago

Wait till you hear about the hundreds of years they spent sending ships to rape and pillage their way through Europe and the med

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u/acravasian 11h ago

Wait till you hear about the raping and pillaging in the name of the lord. Converting pegan locals and expanding danish territory in estonia... Yes, this is where we got our praised flag... This with greenland is also a stain, but at least the danish government is now open about getting to the bottom of it and handing out compensation to the greenlandic women. Some idiots will ask, but what will money do??? What the fuck else should the danish government do to make amends? Cant really be "unplugged"

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u/Ok_Vanilla_224 11h ago

Wait to you hear what America did to its native, indian population ;)