Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, who was ordered to leave podium after refusing to translate speech, attacks ‘racist’ mindset
A Greenlandic MP has accused Copenhagen of “cognitive dissonance” after she was ordered to leave the podium in parliament for refusing to translate her speech calling out human rights abuses against the former Danish colony.
In the speech delivered earlier this month, Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam paid tribute to victims of the so-called Spiral contraceptive scandal in which Greenlandic women and girls say they were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD) by Danish doctors without their knowledge or consent.
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