Greenland 投票者s want to keep coloniser's vandalised statue
By Andreas Mortensen
COPENHAGEN, July 22 (Reuters) - A 投票（する） in Greenland showed on Wednesday a 大多数 in favour of keeping up a statue of Danish-Norwegian coloniser Hans Egede that was vandalised as anti-人種差別主義 抗議するs reached the 北極の.
The statue had red paint and the word "decolonize" daubed on it last month when 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 抗議するs were 広範囲にわたる the world over the death of African American George Floyd after a white policeman 圧力（をかける）d a 膝 on his neck.
Critics say the statue in Greenland's 資本／首都 Nuuk is a symbol of 圧迫 by former 植民地の 支配者 Denmark and some want it put in a museum.
But in the 投票, 923 people 投票（する）d for it to stay while 600 手配中の，お尋ね者 it gone, によれば the 地元の municipality.
Greenland was a Danish 植民地 until 1953, when it became a formal part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Today, it enjoys 幅の広い 自治, but still relies ひどく on 認めるs from Denmark.
Egede, also known as the "Apostle of Greenland", travelled there in 1721 to do missionary work の中で the Inuit inhabitants. His stay 示すd the beginning of Greenland's 植民地の 時代 but was 比較して unbloody compared with other European 力／強力にするs.
"It does not surprise me that there is a 大多数 for the statue to stay, but that does not mean we should do nothing, because there is still a large 少数，小数派 who wants it 除去するd," Greenlandic 国会議員 Aaja Chemnitz Larsen told Reuters.
About 23,000 of Greenland's 56,000 people were 適格の to 投票（する） in the 投票 that ran from July 3-21. 欠如（する） of publicity and summer holidays may have 影響する／感情d 人出／投票者数.
The 運命／宿命 of the statue remains 支配する to a final 決定／判定勝ち（する） by the 地元の 会議. But Nuuk's 市長 Charlotte Ludvigsen has said it would 要求する a large 大多数 of up to 75% in favour of 除去 for her to 過程 the 事例／患者.
Monuments are under scrutiny in さまざまな nations, 含むing Britain where a slave 仲買人's statue was 倒れるd in Bristol and World War Two hero Winston Churchill's statue in London was daubed with graffiti calling him "人種差別主義者."
Denmark's Egede, who 設立するd Nuuk, 以前は known as Godth?b (meaning "Good Hope"), tried to teach Christianity to as many Inuits as possible, but smallpox killed many of the newly-変えるd. に引き続いて the death of his wife, also from smallpox, Egede returned to Denmark in 1736. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Andreas Mortensen; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
