Denmark and the controlled extermination of the INUIT, the aboriginal population of Greenland.

When one looks at the international media and reads with some intensity the news related to the alleged interest of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in Greenland and observes how the Danish and European authorities tear their clothes criticizing the alleged imperialism of said president when considering his interest in this area of the Arctic, they forget to comment with the same warrior ardor, that the dispute between Denmark, and by extension the European Union (cowardly), is still pending. the Greenlandic aborigines when the still unsolved case of the sterilization of girls and young women by Denmark, approximately, between the years 1960 to 1970 (1975) is mentioned.

The proven facts consider that during the decade from 1960 to 1975, the Kingdom of Denmark carried out a secret birth control program in Greenland, territory that is part of Denmark. These programs involved, in many cases (not in others), the placement of intrauterine devices (IUDs) in Greenlandic girls and adolescents, generally without their informed consent or that of their families. This episode has been popularly known as the «spiral case» (spiralsagen) referring to the IUD and especially its form.

It is convenient to clearly report that during those years (1960-1975), there were nine different governments in Denmark calling: Hansen Government II, Government Kampmann I, Government Kampann II, Government Krag I, Government Krag II, Government Baunsgaard, Government Krag III, Government Jorgensen I, and Government Hartling. In all of them, saving the Justice Party, were the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, except in the last one. Did none of those politicians know anything about said project that concerned the control of the population of an important area of ​​their territory? Did the Health Ministers in each government not know what was happening? Who were the doctors who, in true Nazi style, created an unjustifiable protocol to decimate the Greenlandic population?

It has been estimated, throughout subsequent investigations, that between 4,000 and 4,500 Greenlandic girls and adolescents They were subjected to this sterilization procedure (birth control) between 1960 and 1975. As I mentioned before, many of them were minors, practically cases of 12-year-old girls have been discovered. Of course, it is clear that the program was carried out by Danish medical authorities whose names have not been officially provided. And of course, over the years, those affected have neither been financially compensated nor adequately informed.

In 2022, Denmark and Greenland agreed to carry out research (today, more than 50 years later -1975-, the responsibilities will have expired, the victims will have already died or will be very old and the culprits, doctors and politicians too)to clarify the facts.

This investigation (late and anachronistic) attempts to establish who the culprits were, who ordered the measures (politicians) and who hid them over the intervening years. Of course, now we intend to analyze what the psychological, physical or social consequences could be for those affected; something impossible to value given that the time that has passed dilutes the pain of those who suffered it. And although many organizations have called for responsibilities and compensation, the final report that should have been ready in 2025 is still waiting in some prime minister’s drawer to see the light of day.

Over the last few years, voices have emerged, stating that these were not surgical sterilizations, but rather a massive use of contraceptive devices without full knowledge. As if that somehow justified the application carried out by the doctors of the Danish health system. In other words, the state’s violence was brutal, especially because it was directed against the indigenous population. Greenland Inuit.

It is of no use that 47 years after the events ended, in 2022, the Danish government officially apologized, not forgiven, for such a violation of the human rights of said population. Four years later (2026), we are still waiting for a report that clearly could have been done in four days. The culprits: the governments of the time and their subsequent predecessors to the present day, the health services, and so on to a long list of people who, without a doubt, should be punished, at least publicly.

Now, all the Danish media and other European countries are preparing to defend Greenland, but without valuing the indigenous population that was decimated by a degrading colonial practice.

Without a doubt, I do not know, in the conflict created by Donald Trump, with whom the Greenlanders will be better off, but without a doubt, I am clear that the Aborigines Inuit that remain, with Denmark surely not. The acts committed by Denmark between 1960-1975 are susceptible to being studied in the International Criminal Court as crimes against humanity of a supposedly democratic state. Decimating a population or considering its replacement is a despicable act, and if a state consents to it, even more so.