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On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik detonated a car bomb in Oslo, killing eight people and injuring 209. Less than two hours later, he attacked a summer camp on the island of ...
- The Beautiful Memorial That Will Commemorate The Victims Of Norway's Utoya Massacre
On July 22, 2011, a gunman detonated a car bomb in Oslo,...
- The Beautiful Memorial That Will Commemorate The Victims Of Norway's Utoya Massacre
- A National Tragedy
- The 10th Anniversary in 2021
- The Aftermath and Trial in Oslo
- The Struggling Survivors of Utøya
- The Memorials
- 22 July in Books and Film
It's hard to believe it's been so long since the events of Oslo and Utøya. They were some of the first things I wrote abouton this blog, taking place less than three months after I moved here from the UK. I learned a lot about my new home country in the weeks that followed. In 2021, the 10th anniversary refocused attention on the incident, the afte...
A few years ago, Norway took a collective look back at the events as the tenth anniversary thrust the events back into the national spotlight. Various events were planned to commemorate the terror attacks in both Oslo and on Utøya island. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)announcedthat the Norwegian Police would be armed for the day itself...
Norway's immediate response surprised and impressed many around the globe. Then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg summed things up by saying, “our response is more democracy, more openness and more humanity.” The criminal trial began nine months later in April 2012, with a media circus camped outside throughout. Breivik did not deny the events, so mu...
In 2020, researchers from the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies published results from the latest in a series of studies on the Utøya survivors. It found that one-third of the survivors suffer from symptoms equivalent to or very close to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Almost half of the participants in the study sti...
The original proposal for a striking memorial that would feature a gash through the island was finally abandoned several years ago following public disagreement. Opposition from neighbouring communities has continued, but has not failed to stop the construction of a national memorial at the Utøya quay. However, the memorial wasn't finished in time ...
The events of 2011 have been recorded in various book and film projects over the past decade. On Netflix, 22 Julyfocuses on the story of one survivor struggling to come to terms with the incident. It would have been very easy to focus such a movie on the tragic events on the island. While that's of course featured, the film focuses in much more on ...
Jul 22, 2021 · Ten years ago, Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people, many of them teenagers, in a bomb attack and gun rampage. The July 22 attacks left Norway, a small, close-knit ...
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Jul 15, 2021 · Norway’s capital was quieter than usual on July 22 2011, a wet Friday during the summer holidays. At 3.25pm a bomb hidden inside a van exploded outside the prime minister’s office, shattering ...
Mar 14, 2022 · Norwegian Broadcating (NRK) reported how state authorities, believing the Cold War was over, decided in 1998 to remove long-standing demands that all public buildings be built with new bomb shelters. Not a single new bomb shelter for the public has been built in Norway for more than 20 years. In the Oslo suburb of Bærum, for example, only 25 ...
Jul 21, 2021 · On 22 July 2011, far-right extremist Anders Breivik set off a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo and, two hours later, attacked a summer camp for young political activists on Utøya island.
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Jul 21, 2021 · FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 file photo, people look at the newly unveiled memorial “Iron roses” is unveiled outside Oslo Cathedral, in Oslo. The memorial is in memory of the 77 people who lost their lives on July 22, 2011 during a bombing and shooting attacks. At 3.25 p.m. on July 22, 2021, a ray of sun should have illuminated ...
