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Six Inuit who were snatched from their families in Greenland and taken to Denmark 70 years ago are demanding compensation from Copenhagen for a lost childhood.
In 1951, Denmark took 22 children from its former colony away from their families, promising them a better life and the chance to return to Greenland as part of a new Danish-educated elite.
Six survivors of the 22, now in their 70s, are each demanding €33,600 (£28,200) as compensation in a letter to…
"Denmark's prime minister has apologised to 22 children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment," says this article from BBC News. These children, from Greenland's indigenous Inuit population, "were taken to Denmark to be re-educated as 'little Danes' who could later return to foster cultural links," according to the article. "But when 16 did return they were put in an orphanage and many did not see their families again. Only six are now alive."