More pressure on Norwegian prime minister, Stoltenberg as leading daily,  calls for his resignation

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Backed by a report from a  22 July Commission which ended with a damning report about the Norwegian government in relation to the bombing of the Government buildings and the killings of youths in the Norwegian island of Utoya, the paper believed that the  tragedy would have been avoided.

The paper, Verdens Gang,VG ppoint that dues to incompetence and reluctance to work for the interest of the people, the killing in the Island of Utøya could have been avoided if the government was efficient, writes the paper which is one of Norway's largest newspapers.

The view now is that Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Prime minister should resign as the social institutions that would have protected the land and its people, did not work.
Stoltenberg was much praise for his own actions after the mass murder of the young people in Utöya and the bomb against the government buildings. The fact that he has been asked to resign due to the shortcomings of the state apparatus that he is responsible to have kept running well is an aspect worth appreciating.
VG notes that people sitting in the responsible key positions in Norway's political management does not understand the responsibility they have. A more frightening diagnosis of the country's 22 July Commission's report has shown how the country seems to been running without qualified people to run the government.

According to VG, "they failed. They failed us. perpetrator caused the death and suffering in the last summer alone  and all the blame for the violence and pain he inflicted on innocent fellow human beings should hang on the government."

The 22 July Commission's mandate was to look at how the terrorist had the opportunity to plan and carry out the bloody campaign without encountering any significant obstacles. Why was he not caught by the Norwegian secret police PST?, was among some of the questions the commission was seeking to answer which also puzzled the paper.

How could he park a van full of explosives in the very heart of Norway's political environment and no one noticed? Why was he not be stopped before crossing to  Utøya, and how could he continue to execute children and young people long after the alarm had gone?

The report goes through in detail the sequence of events on Friday 22 July, to check if anything could or should have been done differently. The conclusion was mildly shocking. Especially because the report did not identify plans or risk assessments to counter a terrorist situation.

In another of Norway's major newspapers, Dagbladet, the  police investigator Leif A. Lier called for Stoltenberg's resignation and former prime minister, Kåre Willoch says that the prime minister must take responsibility.

Stoltenberg said at Monday's press conference that he acknowledges responsibility for the consequences of what happened July 22 but had not been thinking about resigning.
by Scancomark.se Team