The Danish government offered an apology to thousands of its citizens with disabilities who were abused in state-run facilities, including with forced sterilizations or sexual assaults.
Denmark Social Affairs minister Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil told a group of around 50 victims from the period in the western city of Horsens on Monday: “The state had... an obligation of oversight, and did not sufficiently do its job".
She said: “In the name of the Danish state, in the name of the government. What happened to you is far below the Denmark we believe in. We will never forget what happened to you –– and what happened to you will never happen again.”
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