COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s prime minister apologised in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power.

Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system.

“I don’t believe we can achieve the more equal and proper relationship that many of us desire unless we dare opening even the darkest chapters,” Mette Frederiksen, dressed all in black, said at a ceremony in Greenland’s capital Nuuk.

The ceremony marks another step in Denmark’s accelerated efforts to repair ties with Greenland si

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