The 10th Anniversary of the July 2011 Terrorist Attacks in Norway
OSLO, July 22 – Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark 10 years since Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right extremist, killed 77 people, most of them teenagers at a youth camp.
Breivik, a white supremacist who wanted to bring about a fascist revolution through violent means, detonated a car bomb outside the prime minister’s office in Oslo, killing eight, before driving to Utoeya island and shooting 69 people at a Labour Party youth camp.
Breivik, 42, is serving a 21-year sentence, which can be prolonged indefinitely if he is deemed a continued threat to society.
Survivors, many of whom were teenagers at the time, are now determined to confront the far-right ideology which was a catalyst for the attack.
Jens Stoltenberg – who was the Labour Party prime minister at the time of the murders and is now NATO Secretary-General – pointed to recent incidents of far-right violence, including continued death threats against the attacks’ survivors. A memorial to 2001 teenage hate crime victim Benjamin Hermansen was also vandalised earlier this week with the slogan “Breivik was right”.
A group of survivors have set up a Twitter account @aldriglemme (Never forget) posting minute-for-minute events as they unfolded 10 years ago, including tweets from that day.
Ten years after Breivik attacks, survivors seek to confront far-right extremism:
Norway mourns 77 slain a decade ago in extremist attack:
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg marked the 10th anniversary of the July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway on Thursday (22 July 2021) saying that “hatred is still present”, but that open societies will prevail:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185904.htm
COMMEMORATION:
Hegnhuset, memorial and learning centre on Utøya, Norway:
The 22 July Centre (Oslo):
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