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Dozens of activists, including Greta Thunberg of neighboring Sweden, were blocking the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo Monday to protest been protesting a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
The activists, mainly teenagers, are lying outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading “Land Back.”
The protesters from organizations called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association’s youth council NSR-Nuorat, say “the ongoing human rights violations” against Sami reindeer herders “must come to an end.” Several of the activists donned the Sami’s traditional bright-colored dress and put up a tent used by the Arctic indigenous people.
In October 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami people, who have been using the land to raise reindeer for centuries.
