Ten years on, Utoya massacre survivors want Norway to confront far-right ideology
By AFP
24 July 2021 |
1:48 pm
Ten years after the bloodiest massacre in Norwegian history, the survivors of the Utoya shooting are still looking to challenge the far-right ideology that motivated the killing of 77 innocent people. The island, located in a lake to the west of Oslo, looks very different to how it did on that fateful day when Anders Behring Breivik turned his guns on a summer camp.
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