July 22, 2011

It's a sad day.

Today something happened that I never, in a million years thought would happened in Norway. Terrorism. A gigantic car bomb went of in the middle of our political centre in Oslo, our nations capital. This is just about in the middle of the city as well. The bomb was so powerful windows was blasted out in a radius of one kilometre from the bombing centre. This has happened in the summer holiday when many people go on holiday to Oslo. A friend of mine saw a dead person hanging out of a window. They were close to where the bombing happened.
This is awful.
Every year the youth parties of the bigger political parties in Norway has a summer camp. One was going on today. A person disguised as a police officer managed to get onto the island where 700 kids, youths and young adults were enjoying their time together and starting using them as targets. Apparently with a machine gun. We still don't know how many got killed. Who does that? What kind of person does that?
Safe to say I'm scared- I still don't know if anybody I know is affected. This is so fucking surreal! This is Norway! What. The. Fuck?

Still- I hope we don't fall into a state of paranoia. I hope we grow closer. This is the time to stand together and help each other, not turn on each other and giving blame.

My heart goes out to everyone affected by the happenings today.


"No one will bomb us to silence, no one will shoot us to silence, no one will ever scare us from being Norway. You will not destroy us, you will not destroy our democracy, you will not destroy our ideals for a better world. We are a small nation, we are a proud nation. This evening, tonight, we will stand for each other." - Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister. 

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