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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3. november 2003 / Timeline November 3, 2003
Version 3.52. November 2003, 4. November 2003
11/03/2003
Thulesag
3
Højesteret starter domsforhandling i Thulefangernes
erstatningssag.
Kilde: Nielsen, Jørgen Steen: Jagten på
retfærdighed. I: Information, 05/27/2003.
11/03/2003
Inuit battle to shut US air base
Inuit hunters are to ask Denmark's Supreme Court on Monday to close
down one of America's most secretive and strategically important
military bases.
The Inuit claim they were illegally evicted from traditional
grounds in northern Greenland and they are demanding the right of
return.
The US would like to use Thule air base as a site for the
controversial Star Wars National Missile Defence System.
The case pits a superpower against the world's smallest indigenous
people.
Thule contains powerful surveillance equipment, making it an ideal
existing site for America.
Lawyers representing the Inuit claim that their very survival is at
stake as the territory to which they were exiled no longer has
sufficient food stocks to sustain them, writes BBC.
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