{"id":306403,"date":"2021-07-22T22:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/norway-mourns-77-dead-a-decade-after-extremist-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T22:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:14:52","slug":"norway-mourns-77-dead-a-decade-after-extremist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/norway-mourns-77-dead-a-decade-after-extremist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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OSLO, Norway \u2014 Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday, marking 10 years since the country\u2019s worst ever peacetime slaughter as leaders urged their country to fight the extremism that was behind the attack.<\/p>\n

On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people, before heading to tiny Utoya island where he stalked and shot dead 69 mostly teen members of the Labor Party\u2019s youth wing.<\/p>\n

Events were held around the country, including a service in Oslo Cathedral that ended with the first peal of bells. Thousands of people gathered in the streets outside to mourn the 77 victims.<\/p>\n

Arriving on crutches, 84-year-old King Harald took his seat for the service beside Queen Sonja at the front of Oslo Cathedral as the country observed a minute\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n

Speaking in front of 77 roses arranged into the shape of a heart, Jens Stoltenberg, Norway\u2019s prime minister at the time of the attacks in 2011, told the congregation that \u201c10 years ago we met hatred with love, but the hatred is still there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crown Prince Hakon of Norway walks with Bishop Jan Otto Myrseth during the memorial service in Hole Church, marking the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attack, Thursday July 22, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe perpetrator was a right-wing extremist. He misused Christian symbols. He grew up in our streets, belonged to the same religion and had the same skin color as the majority in this country. He was one of us,\u201d Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he is not one of us, who respects democracy. He is one of those who believe they have the right to kill for their political objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around the country, people listened as emotional survivors read aloud the names of the victims at a televised memorial event.<\/p>\n

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Flowers are placed at a memorial outside Oslo Cathedral marking the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attack, Thursday July 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Some parents of the victims reflected on the way the country coped with the slaughter, and said that \u201ctime does not heal all wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c(The victims) would be proud of how we reacted after the terror and how the rule of law stood strong,\u201d said Lisbeth Kristine Roeyneland, whose daughter Synne was murdered by Breivik. Roeyneland now runs the national support group for victims and families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would those who were so brutally and unfairly killed think of us now 10 years later? I think they would be sad to know that there still are survivors and bereaved with great needs,\u201d Roeyneland said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they would be disapp<\/a>ointed in seeing the public debate in many ways has moved in the wrong direction,\u201d she added. \u201cI also think they would be proud of us. Proud of how we reacted in the days after the terrorist attack and how our state under the rule of law firmly stood its ground in the face of brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Ingrid Alexandra during the memorial service on on Utoya island, Norway, Thursday July 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Astrid Hoem, a survivor from Utoya who now leads the AUF, the youth wing of the center-left Labor Party, said \u201cwe have not stopped the hatred\u201d and urged Norway to continue facing up to the racism in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so brutal that it can be difficult to fathom,\u201d Hoem said. \u201cBut it\u2019s our responsibility to do so. Because 10 years on, we must speak the truth. We haven\u2019t stopped the hatred. Far-right extremism is still alive. The terrorist was one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was speaking to a group of mourners, including Crown Prince Haakon, Prime Minister Erna Solberg, survivors and families of the victims.<\/p>\n

Solberg said it hurt to think back \u201con that dark July day\u201d and added: \u201cWe must not leave hate unchallenged.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terror attack on the 22nd of July was an attack on our democracy,\u201d Solberg, Norway\u2019s prime minister since 2013, said. \u201cIt was a politically motivated terrorist act towards the Labor Party, AUF and their ideas. But it wasn\u2019t just an attack on a political movement. A whole nation was struck. But we rose again. But Norway was changed by an experience which still causes pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Crown Prince Haakon during the memorial service on Utoya island, Norway, Thursday July 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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At a commemorative event on Utoya, Haakon said Norwegians must work together to resist right-wing extremism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our personal and collective responsibility to work against these forces every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Small boats peppered the water around the island, a reminder of attempts by many local residents to rescue people 10 years ago while Breivik fired into the water towards them.<\/p>\n

Dignitaries laid flowers at a suspended steel memorial, inscribed with the names of the island\u2019s 69 victims.<\/p>\n

The flowers have become a symbol of the country\u2019s response to the attacks, when a sea of roses was laid outside Oslo Cathedral in the days after the slaughter.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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