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Greenlanders chant 'go home' at protest outside opening of US consulate
Key takeaways
- Consulate, chanting that the Americans must go home.
- Protesters waved Greenlandic flags and held signs that read USA Asu, or Stop USA, The Guardian reported.
- He added that the protests were not to provoke Donald Trump or Jeff Landry but to show the world that Greenland has its own democracy.
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Consulate, chanting that the Americans must go home.
Protesters waved Greenlandic flags and held signs that read USA Asu, or Stop USA, The Guardian reported. Others shouted Greenland belongs to Greenlanders outside the Greenlandic Parliament.
It s very important, now more than ever, to show the American people what we already said, that no means no, and that the future and self-determination of Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, said Aqqalukkuluk Fontain, who organized the protest against the consulate and the arrival of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R), the U.S. special envoy.
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