“At least he challenges Denmark’s control,” she said. “That conversation was never allowed before.” For her, independence is not about choosing between Denmark and the US — it is about finally being treated as human beings with the right to decide.
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| Amarok Petersen is one of thousands of Greenlandic women unable to have children after learning Danish doctors implanted an IUD birth control device in her womb as a child. |
"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.
"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.
“ 'The Danes don’t see us as humans,” Petersen said at a local Inuit restaurant overlooking Nuuk’s famous fjords. “They think we’re too expensive, too small a population. But they take our land, our children, our lives and expect thanks.” . . .More...
"Take this for information only. Readers around the world read what Democrats here say about our nation and may want to overthrow us to rescue the women of the Squad and The View."
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