World News exclusive Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule after decades of forced sterilizati

[mystery-ak]

 Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule after decades of forced sterilization, poor living conditions: ‘They stole our future’
By Caitlin Doornbos
Published Jan. 16, 2026, 7:52 p.m. ET

NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.

Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.

Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.

“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”

While the government of Denmark officially apologized last year for decades of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and girls, the horrific mistreatment has cast a long shadow on the island that has become the center of an international ownership fight.

This week, the Danes hosted European troops for military exercises on Greenland, asserting they are protecting the island from outside powers — particularly the United States. But for many Inuit, Denmark itself has long been the real threat.

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https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/world-news/greenlanders-speak-out-against-danish-rule-they-stole-our-future/

[Fishrrman]

I'll repeat:
It's time for a plebiscite of the Greenlanders.
Let THEM decide:
Shall it be Denmark?
Or... shall it be Mr. Trump?

[verga]

This is one of the most amoral things I have ever heard of.

[mountaineer]

This is incredible. It's like what some doctors did in the early 1900s to black women in Virginia (and probably other parts of the U.S. south), that is, sterilized them without their knowledge. Where are all the "stolen land" people to squawk about this atrocity?

[Elderberry]

Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule after decades of forced sterilization, poor living conditions: ‘They stole our future’

New York Post by Caitlin Doornbos 1/16/2026

NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.

Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.

Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.

“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”

While the government of Denmark officially apologized last year for decades of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and girls, the horrific mistreatment has cast a long shadow on the island that has become the center of an international ownership fight.

This week, the Danes hosted European troops for military exercises on Greenland, asserting they are protecting the island from outside powers — particularly the United States. But for many Inuit, Denmark itself has long been the real threat.

More: https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/world-news/greenlanders-speak-out-against-danish-rule-they-stole-our-future/

[PeteS in CA]

This atrocity was perpetrated in the enlightened mid-late 20th Century, not the bad old days of the 18th or 19th Century. Somehow, Denmark shrugged off very quickly (~20 years!) what it should have learned about racism by way of WW2.

[Mod2]

Merged topics - both on forced sterilization in Greenland.

[Smokin Joe]

This is especially vile when you consider children are deeply valued in almost (if not) all American Indian populations, taking in Greenland and the Arctic too.

[verga]

This is incredible. It's like what some doctors did in the early 1900s to black women in Virginia (and probably other parts of the U.S. south), that is, sterilized them without their knowledge. Where are all the "stolen land" people to squawk about this atrocity?

Right up there with the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, from 1932 - 1972.

[mountaineer]

Iceland and Denmark have killed nearly everyone with Down syndrome, too.

https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/2013421223082971594

[verga]

Iceland and Denmark have killed nearly everyone with Down syndrome, too.

https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/2013421223082971594

This breaks my heart!

[libertybele]

Wow.  Just wow.  How sad and how horrific.  Obviously this information has been silenced for awhile.

[berdie]

This breaks my heart!

Tragic. But if you think about it...people in this country abort children that are diagnosed with a medical condition after a  sonogram.

[verga]

Tragic. But if you think about it...people in this country abort children that are diagnosed with a medical condition after a  sonogram.

And tha also breaks my heart.