Greenland said on Friday it would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Denmark’s forced contraception of thousands of indigenous Inuits, after experts failed to agree on whether the scheme constituted “genocide.”

The forced contraception campaign is one of the darkest chapters in Greenland’s history with its former colonial master Denmark.

From the 1960s to 1990, more than 4,000 Greenlandic women were forced to wear a contraceptive coil, or intrauterine device (IUD), in the vast majority of cases without their consent or that of their parents if they were minors.

Girls as young as 12 were affected, some of whom were never able to…

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