Greenlandic MP: We want our own country

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00:00Yeah, I mean, just for the benefit of our viewers, Greenland was a colony of Denmark.

00:05And as you alluded to, 46 or so years ago in 1979, Greenland gained self-rule.

00:12I mean, what is the feeling in Greenland towards the people of Denmark?

00:18How do people feel about Denmark?

00:21I think that the feeling is fine, but Denmark has done a lot of atrocities against Greenlanders.

00:29But we are absolutely willing to say that, you know, let's dig up all the dirt and have

00:37a truth and reconciliation agreement so that we can move forward instead of looking back

00:43and all kinds of dirt is being digged up from the past.

00:49So we just want to own our own country, which was annexed by Denmark in 1953.

00:55So Greenlanders want their own country and we want to be sovereign, but we are absolutely

01:00willing to and know that we have to work with other sovereign states.