Six Inuit snatched by Denmark 70 years ago demand compensation. Survivors of group of 22 say they were deprived of their families and culture when taken from Greenland

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1. why only €33,600? is it a symbolic lawsuit?

2. > Six survivors of the 22, now in their 70s, are each demanding €33,600 (£28,200) as compensation in a letter to the Danish prime minister.

   > “They lost their families, their language, their culture and their sense of belonging,” their counsel, Mads Pramming, told the newspaper Politiken.

   > Once they returned to Greenland, they were placed in orphanages even though they had parents. Many of them lost touch with their families completely.

   > “It was a violation of their right to a private life, a family life” in line with the European convention on human rights, Pramming said. He added that he would give the prime minister’s office two weeks to respond, after which he would sue.

3. It was the Red Cross together with the local Inuit authorities on Greenland and with parental consent, that was trying to save the children from the horrid conditions and high child mortality on Greenland.

   The Inuit authorities were perhaps thinking more of modernising Greenland and didn’t want the children back in the poor families, where they might forget, what they had learned. This was the part, where the project failed.

   The only one, that hasn’t given an apology, is the local Inuit government on Greenland.

4. I hope they get it, the Danish state has done awful things in Greenland

5. This sounds fairly reasonable.