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Norwegian youths plan first summer retreat after the Utøya massacre
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
This year, the youths of Labour Party in Norway will be returning to
their summer camp for the first time since the terrorists attack and
mass massacre took place two years ago.
Wednesday next week will see up to 1,000 young Norwegians for the first time since the terrorist attack on the
island of Utøya two years ago, descend to the summer camp. This comes
as the Labour Party's youth, AUF opens its doors to five days of
political debates, football tournaments, and social activities - the
traditional activities of the youths before the massacre.
But the camp is not going to take place on the island of Utøya, where
the terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, shot and killed 69 people, on
the 22 July 2011.
AUF summer camp has otherwise been rescheduled to a small heart-shaped
island of Tyrifjorden about 35 miles outside of Oslo this summer.
However, the massacre is still in minds of hundreds AUF members'
consciousness, and therefore AUF management decided to rebuild Utøya
completely before summer camp will take place there again.
"The building is not finished yet and we can not keep a camp out
there this year. We will come before 2015," says chairman of the AUF,
Eskil Pedersen to Danish television and adds that he is looking forward
to the camp.
"First and foremost it will be pleasant, but we will of course have 22
July 2011 in our mind," he said, adding that the AUF will not hold any
memorial or another to commemorate those killed in the camp.
By Scancomark.com Team