Ten years ago, Anders Breivik took more than 1,000 shots with him to the island of Utøya in the Tyrifjord, northwest of Oslo.
More than 500 people had gathered on the island for the annual summer camp to which the youth organization of the social democratic »Workers' Party« had invited, the majority of them young people.
Breivik wanted to kill everyone.
Ultimately, he shot 69 people on Utøya, eight more were killed in a bomb attack in Oslo.
After the massacre, the then Prime Minister, today's NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, set the narrative for his nation: “We will not give up our values,” he said at the funeral service for the victims, “our answer is: more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety «. But what is left of this beautiful resolution, ten years after the most terrible attack in Norway's history?
Alexandra Rojkov and Dietmar Pieper discussed this question with survivors from Utøya.
In this episode of "Eight Billion" they report on these conversations.
»Bjørn Ihler, the survivor I spoke to, no longer lives in Norway,« says Alexandra Rojkov has done very little against right-wing extremism «.
Kamzy Gunaratnam, meanwhile deputy mayor of Oslo, is also disappointed by Stoltenberg.
"Everything she does politically, she says, goes back to that promise," reports Dietmar Pieper, "she also says that she is happy to be Tamil because she only has brown skin, but is not a Muslim.
Protect her. "
In this episode of »Eight Billion« you will learn how deep the cracks are in Norwegian society and what positive effects the commemoration of the Utøya massacre still has.
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