Norway massacre victims remembered
Norway is commemorating the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago.
Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old far-right fanatic, has admitted to the attacks on July 22 last year - a bombing of the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight, and a shooting rampage that left 69 dead at the left-wing Labour Party's youth camp on Utoya island.
In a wreath-laying ceremony at the bomb site today, prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said Breivik had not succeeded in his declared goal of destroying Norway's commitment to being an inclusive, multicultural society.
Mr Stoltenberg said: "The bomb and the gun shots were meant to change Norway. The Norwegian people answered by embracing our values. The perpetrator lost. The people won."
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Adriano Spiteri
Jul 22nd 2012, 12:07
"In a wreath-laying ceremony at the bomb site today, prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said Breivik had not succeeded in his declared goal of destroying Norway's commitment to being an inclusive, multicultural society."
This Berg PM knows well that other PMs (British, German and French) stated that: "multiculturalism has failed"
Yet he goes on promoting this failure
He goes on saying "the people have won". How short-sighted. Yes, the country must have welcomed such a decision for this cowardly act. But what lies ahead now?
The issue is that this public statement encourages people to think that to counter such terrible acts one must accept multi-culturalism. But we all know this has nothing to do. If anything Breivik massacred his own People, claiming that they were protesting against Palestine. So one wonders what multi-culturalism has got to do with this.
laurent caruana
Jul 22nd 2012, 21:03
Thank God in Malta there are no such elements like Breivik. I hope you agree
Please choose the reason of your report below: