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Diamars 20 Juli 2021
Breivik survivors keep fighting for their vision of Norway

(AP) — On the 10th an- our summer camp that was mosque attacks in 2019 killed
niversary of Norway’s attacked. The hatred was 51 people, and a copycat at-
worst peacetime slaugh- against us because of our val- tempt by Norwegian shooter
ter, survivors of Anders ues of openness and inclu- Philip Manshaus just outside
Behring Breivik’s assault siveness,” said Sindre Lysoe, Oslo later that year in which
worry that the racism a survivor from Utoya who the killer’s sister died, Nor-
which nurtured the anti- is now the general secretary way’s security police changed
Islamic mass murderer is of the Labor Party’s Youth its annual assessments. It
re-emerging in a nation Wing. now ranks the two forms of
known for its progressive extremism at the same dan-
politics. “After Utoya, it was too hard ger level.
for many people to go back to
Most of Breivik’s 77 victims politics. For me and for soci- “As we progressed into 2013
on July 22, 2011, were teen ety, it was very important to and 2014, European migra-
members of the Labor Party raise up again and fight back tion and IS became the prisms
— idealists enjoying their lets flying through the for- determination is waning. through more of the good that we saw terror through.
est then lay hidden for three
annual camping trip on the work we knew we could Norway went back to a nar-
tranquil, wooded island of terrifying hours while he saw “What was very positive af- do,” he said. “Before 22 July, rative of extremism being
friends murdered nearby. A ter the terror attacks was that
Utoya, in a lake northwest of politics was important, after- largely foreign,” said Bjoern
Oslo, the capital. Today many vocal proponent of properly people saw this as an attack wards it became about life Ihler, who escaped the bullets
reckoning with the racism on the whole of Norway. It
survivors are battling to keep and death.” by swimming in frigid waters
their vision for their country and xenophobia in Norway, was a way of showing solidar- around the island to safety.
Aukrust has been the target ity,” said Aukrust. “But that
alive. After hearing about the Oslo
of online abuse, including re- has disappeared. It was an at- bombing on the “darkest “There is a failure in self-
“I thought that Norway ceiving the message that “we tack on a multicultural soci- day of all of our lives,” he reflection. We are missing the
would positively change for- wish Breivik had done his ety. And though it was the act remembers his friends tell- fact that Anders Breivik and
of one person, we know that
job.”
ever after the attacks. Ten ing each other they were Manshaus were Norwegian,
his views are shared by more
years later, that hasn’t hap- The victims of the Utoya people today than they were in the safest place on earth. but also so were a lot of the
pened. And in many ways, Within minutes, the gunfire extremists throughout the
the hate we see online and massacre came from towns 10 years ago.” and screaming began on the last decade that should have
and villages throughout Nor-
the threats against people in island. Today Lysoe spends a been caught by our social sys-
the Labor movement have way, turning a personal trag- Breivik struck at Labor Par- lot of his time warning young tem,” he said.
edy into a collective trauma ty institutions he believed
increased,” said Aasmund people about the dangers of
Aukrust, then-deputy leader for many of the country’s 5.3 were aiding what he called right-wing extremism. Since the July 22 attacks,
the “Islamization” of Nor-
million inhabitants. Survi-
of the Labor Youth Wing who Ihler has become an expert
helped organize the camp. vors were joined by a shaken way. Dressed as a policeman, In the years following the at- in countering radicalization,
population who were deter- he landed on Utoya, shoot- tack, Norway’s security po- founding the Khalifa-Ihler
mined to show that Norway ing dead 69 members of the
Today he’s a national law- would become more — not youth wing and injuring lice, the PST, continued to Institute for Peace Building
maker campaigning for a rank Islamists as more likely and Counter Extremism, ad-
nationwide inquiry into the less — tolerant and reject the scores more. He had earlier to carry out domestic terror- vising European Union and
worldview that motivated the murdered eight people in a
right-wing ideology that in- ism than right-wing extrem- chairing a panel at the Global
spired the killer. killer. bomb attack at government ists. Internet Forum to Counter
buildings in Oslo. Terrorism.
A decade later, some survi-
Aukrust ran from the bul- But after the New Zealand
vors believe that collective “It wasn’t random that it was
Iraqi officials: Roadside bomb kills 30 in Baghdad market

(AP) — A roadside bomb blast occurred as they sal-
attack targeted a Bagh- vaged what items they could.
dad suburb Monday, kill-
ing at least 30 people and There was no immediate
wounding dozens of oth- claim of responsibility for
ers at a crowded market, the bombing but the Islamic
Iraqi medical officials State group has claimed simi-
said. lar attacks in the area before.

The attack took place in the Prime Minister Mustafa al-
Wahailat market in Sadr Kadhimi placed the com-
City, Iraq’s military said in a mander of the federal police
statement. Two medical of- regiment responsible for the
ficials said at least 30 people area of the market place un-
were killed and dozens more der arrest, the military state-
wounded in the powerful ex- ment said. It also said an in-
plosion. They spoke on con- vestigation was launched.
dition of anonymity in line
with regulations. It was the third time this year
that a bomb hit a market in
The blast happened a day be- the densely populated neigh-
fore the Eid al-Adha holiday borhood in eastern Baghdad.
when the market was busy
with shoppers looking for In June, 15 people were That blast was caused by an Large bomb attacks, once an January, over 30 people were
gifts and groceries. wounded when a bomb explosive device attached to a almost daily occurrence in killed in a twin suicide bomb-
placed under a kiosk in an- parked car at the market. Baghdad, have slowed in re- ing in a busy commercial area
Piles of merchandise lay on other Sadr City market deto- cent years since IS was de- in central Baghdad. It was the
the ground after the explo- nated. In April, at least four Monday’s attack comes two feated on the battlefield in deadliest bombing in three
sion. Shopkeepers recounted people were killed in a car months ahead of federal elec- 2017. years to strike Iraq’s capital.
to security forces how the bomb attack in Sadr City. tions slated for Oct. 10. Attacks persist, however. In