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Since the first victim account went public five years ago, Denmark's forced contraception scandal in Greenland has snowballed and now the territory is urging its former colonial power to acknowledge the widespread trauma it caused. "It has violated a number of human rights," says Naja Lyberth, a survivor of a campaign which, between the 1960s and 1990s forced more than 4,500 young Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES