Greenland’s lost generation - BBC World Service Documentaries, 100 Women

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[@PositiveWomenTV]

My heart breaks for these women.

[@lestupidunicorn]

"I felt like my body was colonised" hits so hard

[@ivanadahl5758]

My grandma had one too. Her 4 friends had it too They all died from infection Luckily she was able to get it removed bc it was also infected but in time. She has 7 kids

[@juresichj]

Why is it that people of European descent, who colonized so much of the world, thought it was ok to commit genocide against the original inhabitants of the land? It happened all over North America, Australia, India, so many places. Almost all the people who did this would have considered themselves "good Christians", and yet, they committed the most unChrist-like atrocities against their fellow humans. The physical and emotional pain these women endured deserves a reckoning.

[@pluton247888]

You forgot to mention Africa and the Caribbean

[@juresichj]

@@pluton247888 I tried to cover the places I missed with "so many places". Really hard to list most of the countries in the world in a KZbin comment.

[@mikhailc6445]

I ask myself the same question, this might seem a bit racist but it might be because white ppl have most neanderthal DNA compared to other races. This is why I think they are more genocidal etc.

[@TYT695]

Including the Palestinian problem.. partially as a result of British intervention..

[@drugsdelaney2907]

If you think of the planet as a person and all the people in it the organisms that comprise the body, there is a clear cancer. The ones who wish to consume everything that is and everything that will be.

[@ekesa07632]

Bravo to all of these women! May they find justice !

[@ladyscarlette6289]

Oh my freaking gosh. This is so enraging and heartbreaking.

[@jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968]

This is positively inhumane! Thank you for speaking out. Denmark, you have some explaining to do #denmark

[@evechurchill424]

As usual there will be public inquiries, investigations and outcries, it is a show, no one would be held to account. Malfeasance and criminalities in high office is rampant across the west, why? It is extremely profitable with zero punishment. Worst case if found out, politicians / bureaucrats simply say sorry and retire with "book deals" and start working for some mega corporations.

[@galinaiankova7619]

“Denmark, you have some explaining to do.” #denmark

[@jonasrosendalandersen711]

it has already been taken care of a couple of years ago i think it was 2021 or 2020. They got a real apology from the danish prime minister and a compensation

[@arturintete2461]

@@jonasrosendalandersen711an apology isn’t enough. Please GTFO with your performative decolonization.

[@bethferris3008]

WTF! What gives the right for any country to do that to any woman. It's disgusting, someone needs to be prosecuted for this.

[@tasbykekerey1203]

It’s called chauvinism!

[@IngeBisgaard]

Tak for en flot dokumentation af fortidens traumatiserende fortielser her i landet. Tak til Naja for hendes mod og store engagement i at udbrede det vigtige budskab at hjælpe os videre i livet trods det meget alvorlige indgreb og overgreb.

[@janjohansen9361]

Jeg som Dansker, jo mere jeg finder ud af hvad mit hjemland har gjort mod Grønland/Grønlændere, desto mere forfærdes jeg og skammer mig. En ægte undskyldning er kun på plads, og alt andet som følger med. Begår man overgreb så må man tage konsekvenserne. Jeg som Dansker er på ingen måde for stor til at sige undskyld og jeg beklager virkelig alt det som mit land har begået :-(

[@angelaholic7679]

that is genocide!

[@richlisola1]

👏 Thanks for reciting what was already explicitly said, multiple times, over many years. 👏

[@paintingtracey]

Wow, great reporting. Getting out of the way to let the women tell their stories. What brave women!

[@ammonite400]

I cannot possibly imagine the pain of these women. I look forward to the day I can have kids every moment of my life. To have that stolen from you is indescribable. God bless you Naja ❤️

[@annharlan8926]

From USA, I am so sorry this happened to you as girls. It is a tragedy and a crime. I am glad you find strength in finding the truth and being together. My tears are for you and the life you could never have because some terrible people made a very bad decision to control you when you and your families didn't even know they were plotting against you.

[@nieleoya8519]

The problem is with women that we suffer in silence. SPEAK UP LADIES! Then you realize that you're not alone. The power is in the masses.

[@ajul21520]

I feel so sorry for these women.😢😢😢💔

[@TheCrazyCoffeeLady]

No words. Just heartbreaking. Unbelievable that this could happen. How courageous to speak up. The investigation must provide the truth and answers to the questions these women have 💔🥺

[@jamalex]

That’s horrible 😢 - My heart goes out to the woman and families.

[@OptimusPrimordial]

This is a war crime 😳 Monstrous

[@MrAnu8is]

Straight up eugenics.... 😣

[@friendoftellus5741]

These women should receive compensation from the danish government for the horrible crimes they committed against them !!!!

[@tarusina]

This is heartbreaking!

[@PhotoZoomDK]

My father’s sister is a strong woman ❤❤

[@ogurenedebaki2044]

Is she naja

[@pinkisohal3090]

It's against humanity,i really feel so bad for all these women

[@evechurchill424]

Imagine if this is China or Russia, the western medias will be all over it 24/7/365

[@katysummer9418]

Nobody should be exposed to something like this without consent. It feels like everywhere in the world indigenous people were treated badly.

[@veekay9900]

so sorry.

[@babs2424-p8e]

Those woman where children, when this happened to them! I am about their age, i have two daughters and four grandchildren, the most precious in my life. They've destroyed the life of so many woman, they erased so many generations. I doubt that the ones who did this, was ever taken to responsibility for this crime against humanity and human rights.

[@philipbuggejohnsen7932]

Colonialization in Danish colonies, is where Danes see themselves as role models, better than the colonized with a perceived inferior culture. People who are convicted by Danish courts in the colonies, they are often deported to Denmark to serve their sentences, convicted deported people lose contact with their parents, their sweetheart and friends and they serve out the Danish court's sentence in a foreign culture where they have to assimilate. It results in trauma. The detained deportees often don’t feel at home anywhere afterwards. Being seen as inferior, punished more than Danes, being seen as primitive and therefore not worthy of equal treatment sets in as traumas, inherited traumas that pass from generation to generation. Yours sincerely Philip B. Johnson

[@deirdrekeough2707]

The racism that is the foundation of colonialism. A a tragedy for the colonised and oppressed people.

[@SpaceVisiteur]

Monstruous!

[@PhilipZeplinDK]

What kind of ludicrous bullshit is that to write? Yes, prisoners will often serve time in prisons located in Denmark - because that's where the prisons are. The Danish Kingdom in general has issues with not having enough room for prisoners, so naturally they tend to be sent to the prisons that have room which may be further away. These are not super far away - it's a 1-2 hour flight between the countries ("The Colonies" LOL), and is usually a result of lack of local capability. If you're getting sent to prison, it's also not a light sentence. It means you've done some pretty fucked up shit, especially if its for several years. Then we're talking rape, murder, violent assault, mass fraud, those kinds of things. So I don't have a shitton of sympathy. When Denmark originally colonized Greenland, it was a country where widows were walked out onto the ice to go die - because who needs a single used woman, right? Man, yeah, I see how Denmark was just absolute barbarians compared to them at that point, totally. To this day, they have massive problems with child abuse, physical as well as sexual, incest, youth suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse, and in no way have a self-sustaining economy. Each year, for many decades, Denmark sends roughly 12,000USD to Greenland for each of their citizens. That's on top of all other services we provide for free, such as access to free healthcare, free education, democracy (including representation in the Danish parliament). We've sent doctors, teachers, built up infrastructure, airports, docks. Not to mention that they are freely allowed to vote themselves out at any point, and have had that ability, again, for many decades (but they always choose not to). "Being seen as inferior, punished more than Danes, being seen as primitive and therefore not worthy of equal treatment sets in as traumas, inherited traumas that pass from generation to generation." What the actual fuck kind of horseshit is that? In what toilet trash can did you stick your hand into, to pull out such a ridicules statement? Sincerely, Who The Fuck Signs Their KZbin Comments

[@rationalhindu]

They destroyed the life of these women 😭😖. Horrific crime by those doctors and teachers.

[@puppetguy8726]

Leaving a comment so this gets suggested to more people.

[@gloriamitchell3518]

Inhuman practices must end, but when.

[@Vampybattie]

Shouldn’t this be considered genocide

[@Jitse-c3i]

Incredible

[@Nuuksgirl]

My heart goes out to these women and I will pray for them.

[@ashiqhussain6956]

Its a crime against humanity 😢

[@najanielsen2832]

Min søster fortæller mig at jeg også fik spiral, jeg har sagt til hende at hun skal trække den ud da den har snor har jeg sagt, også sagde hun at jeg havde store smerter. Den erindring husker jeg ikke, måske har jeg blokeret den grimme episode. Uhyggeligt at tænke på det nu. Jeg kan stadigvæk ikke huske det.

[@shirleylangton7967]

I am so sorry that you ladies were forced into this procedure. The IUD was a new form of birth control during this time. I had it myself, but my body rejected it. Only today, watching this, do I wonder if it was the reason for multiple miscarriages, problems with my periods, and the eventual necessity for a hysterectomy due to cervical cancer? Thank You so much for your stories!

[@pluton247888]

But there was no consent in their case. Let’s not justify the actions of the Danish doctors . Some were as young as 12.

[@georgek4598]

Medic here, the answer you’re looking for is a YES. Cervical cancer and breast cancer are evidence based known complications from using IUDs. I am sorry to hear of your story. 🫶

[@shirleylangton7967]

@@georgek4598 Thank You so much for answering my question. My intuition told me it was wrong at the time.

[@babs2424-p8e]

No wonder, the suicide rate is so high there. So many broken people, so much destroyed life.

[@tariqkhader6196]

This makes me ashamed to be descended from the Anglo Saxons who hailed from Jutland

[@surrealist1976]

There is also a lost group of women who was gifted a felline birth control, which caused that they could not get pregnant ever again, EVER! and no one is talking about those poor women...

[@dawninilwin5863]

Praying for Greenlandic women

[@susanschaffner4422]

Such an odd unknown story. The question is why were these young girls subjected to such an invasion of personal privacy.

[@fritnat]

The reason was to bring the birthrate down faced with a massive population explosion the result of modern health care and welfare being provided when Greenland became an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Prior to this time maternal and infant mortality were very high putting a natural limitation on population growth. Native artic peoples like the Greenlanders traditionally practiced both infanticide and senicide, the latter being better known. An exploding population in Greenland would have drained the Danish treasury when large sums were already being invested in modernisation and an enlarged population was not viable with the limited resources in the artic region. Note that "the invasion of personal privacy" when it comes to boys is to this day condoned worldwide supported by cultural attitudes spread not least by the BBC! Since this basic violation of human rights - the right to one's own body as here, is a violation globally condoned, no one is free to point the finger at others.

[@tasbykekerey1203]

🇬🇱❤️🇰🇿 Very much like what happened in Central Asia. Ethnic cleansing, genocide, famine, virus, financial crisis, orphans…They tried everything and we are still standing up headed! 💪🏼 Justice for ever minorities in the world!

[@jgr_lilli_]

Access to CONSENTUAL contraception and sexual health service is an important pillar of developmental aid. But what these women went through was just eugenicist violence.

[@bwghall1]

We used to trust Doctors. USED TOO!!!.

[@babs2424-p8e]

They more i learn about the world, the more i am speechless and shoked. Is there one place in this world without cruelty against humans. Doing this to a 13 old girl, what type of a "human being" must this be? And they call themselves "christians"....

[@nikiyoussef55]

satan and hes minions run this planet

[@buffel60]

I've made a contribution over that matter for a french revue...

[@Vampybattie]

europoid at it again

[@nielskristianmller93]

😢

[@meryemgaia4067]

❤️

[@Mark-ej4uf]

The Danish Royal Court is making affairs with the Calabrian Ndrangheta.

[@Blaise122]

❤

[@Dickyboi99]

Denmarkki Pisuulluni, Qanorli Qallunaat Toqullungit

[@najapetersen7699]

Uangalu pinngitalisallunga nartunaversaserneqanikuvunga 1984 qasinngiannguani

[@muhucao258]

OMG, two colonial countries bite each other, just like two dogs bite each other

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Danish Colonialism

[@fritnat]

This kind of violation of children is still happening only to boys and on a far greater scale. Alone in Kenya 10,000s of boys have experienced being taken from school to foreign doctors who, as in the case of the girls in Greenland, have their geni.. deliberately injured robbing them of their full potential, only in their case permanently. A whole third of the world's men have had this ritual performed on them without their consent and every single government in the world condones it. Chances are that most commentators here have supported this through their taxes and the BBC supports the propaganda perpetuating it. Naja said "we have a right to our bodies" but why only girls and not boys too? Her classmate's father said "you should never violate children that way", he's right but sadly no state lives up to its basic duty to protect all of its most vulnerable citizens from having the most intimate parts of their bodies violated. Naja ends by saying "...they should never cross our boundaries that the heart should play a role in political decisions". Only a couple of years ago the Prime minister, Mette Frederiksen shattered this hope when she, together with the other leaders of the present government, rejected a people's petition to extend the legal protection girls enjoy to all children. Mette Frederiksen is now in Greenland meeting Naja and many of the other women and has accepted that they are victims of a past crime all the while she presides over a government turning her back on the present day crime in the same category.

[@katherinespencer2073]

There had to be other ways to control such unimaginably large families as an average of 7 where people were relying so much on outside funds for housing etc. I see such behaviors in Nunavut Canada...people not married, employed or even educated to be relevant in today's world having babies. Then complaining non stop tht their mostly all social housing is too small, too crowded. But no one has self control to ensure that they are capable of raising their own children from their own abilities to give the best of everything now considered normal to their kids. These terrible decisions & choices of irresponsibility should not however allow people's bodies to be invaded without consent unless both men & women are equally held responsible. So, how many men were sterilized at the same time? WHEN will men be held responsible for all sperm they spill? Why do women always have to carry the burden of societies needs and standards?

[@williamfox1146]

I am totally in favor of global warming. I hate the long, cold winters where I live in Vail, Colorado. So a year ago I began focusing on raising my carbon footprint. Thus far I have been able to raise the average daily temperature in Colorado by 4 degrees. I will continue increasing my carbon footprint until I am able to grow palm trees on my 5 acre property. Freedom!

[@shirleylangton7967]

I don't think you have really thought about the outcome of a 4-degree rise in temperature to your health, ability to grow food, and other outcomes of a 4-degree rise in temperature to your environment.