It was a visibly moved Prime Minister who, on Wednesday afternoon, shook hands and hugged dozens of Greenlandic women who had gathered at the Cultural Center in Nuuk to participate in the official delivery of the Danish apology to the Greenlandic women who were victims of the Danish IUD campaign (spiralkampagnen) in the 1960s and 1970s.

However, the matter is far from settled. Besides the sensitive issue of compensation for the Greenlandic women, there is a toxic legal question lurking: whether the Danish state and long-deceased ministers can be held accountable for committing something as heinous as genocide, as the top officials responsible for the IUD campaign.