Denmark Delays Apology to Greenland Project Children

The Danish government wants to officially apologize to survivors of the 1951 Greenland Children Project, though the delay has been postponed to November for now, Sermitsiaq reports.

The cause for the delay is that a historical report assessing the project is due to be finished first, and its completion has been delayed by the Corona situation. The investigation was initiated in February 2019 by the then self-rule government in Greenland.

The Greenland Children Project was one in which 22 children were involuntarily sent off from Greenland to Denmark in order to shed everything Greenlandic and become a Danish-speaking elite in Greenland eventually. Six of the children included in the project are still alive today.

The organization Save the Children acknowledged its involvement with the project in 2015 and issued a formal apology to those affected.