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Norway marks 10 years since massacre by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik left 77 dead

  • In 2011, Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people before going on a shooting spree at an island summer camp for left-wing youths
  • ‘We must not let hate stand unopposed,’ Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in a speech to survivors and relatives of the victims

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Officials including Stefan Lofven, Sweden’s prime minister, and Jonas Gahr Store, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party, lay flowers at the Utoya memorial earlier this week. Photo: NTB/DPA
Norway’s prime minister on Thursday called for the country to stand up against the hatred that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, 10 years after the attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik.
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“We must not let hate stand unopposed,” Erna Solberg said in a speech at a memorial ceremony near the government headquarters in Oslo.

This was the place where Breivik set off a bomb that killed eight people before going on a shooting spree at a summer camp for left-wing youths on the island of Utoya, killing another 69 – most of them teenagers.

Speaking to survivors and relatives of the victims, Solberg stressed that much had been done in the last 10 years to improve security and combat radicalisation and extremism.

“The most important preparedness, we have to build within each of us,” she said, adding it would serve as “a fortified bulwark against intolerance and hate speech, for empathy and tolerance.”

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Smoke billows from a building as people stand looking at the site of the explosion that rocked central Oslo on July 22, 2011. Photo: Reuters
Smoke billows from a building as people stand looking at the site of the explosion that rocked central Oslo on July 22, 2011. Photo: Reuters
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