Chronicle: Anders Behring Breivik will join history’s human monsters

The 32-year-old Norwegian who has confessed to killing 76 people requested two things for his court appearance: he wanted to wear a uniform, and he wanted the hearing to be open.

This makes our impression of what has happened more complicated. It seems that the man who committed this hideous crime developed a political agenda to defend of his actions. He is not just a “madman”, he is something more. He regards himself as a soldier and he thinks that he … Read more

Mankell on the attacks in Norway

Henning Mankell comments the attacks in Norway in a chronicle published in The Guardian.

“We might ask whether we have been waiting for this, a brutal act of terrorism not committed by people who have kidnapped the Islamic faith and who claim to act in the name of that religion, but a man with a different political and religious motive. A rightwing extremist, a nationalist with elements of Christian fundamentalism.”

Click here to read the entire chronicle in The Guardian. … Read more