Denmark PM says sorry to Greenland Inuits taken for ‘heartless’ social experiment

Mette Frederiksen apologises in person to six surviving Greenlandic Inuits who were snatched from families as children more than 70 years ago

Denmark's prime minister has apologised in person to a group of Greenlandic Inuits who were removed from their families and taken to Copenhagen more than 70 years ago as part of an experiment to create a Danish-speaking elite.

What you were subjected to was terrible. It was inhumane. It was unfair. And it was heartless," Mette Frederiksen told the six surviving members of that group at an emotional ceremony in the capital. We can take responsibility and do the only thing that is fair, in my eyes: to say sorry to you for what happened."