1999: Denmark Forced displacement of Greenland Inuits from their home

Denmark Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen apologizes for the way his country forced Greenland Inuits from their homes in 1953 to make room for an expansion of a U.S. airbase.



 

 

To: 
Greenland Inuits
From: 
Denmark
Year of Apology: 
1999
Footnote: 
Denmark: Apology to Inuits.” New York Times. September 3, 1999.