Norwegians turn out to defy Breivik
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April 27, 2012, Friday
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FACING terror with music, tens of thousands of people gathered in squares across Norway to sing a children's song that gunman Anders Behring Breivik claimed was being used to brainwash young Norwegians.
The defiant protest against the right-wing fanatic took place as survivors gave evidence in his trial for the July 22 bombing-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people, mostly teenagers.
Some 40,000 people converged at a central square in Oslo in the pouring rain to sing the 1970s song "Children of the Rainbow" - a version of US folk singer Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Race."
Later they were to lay roses on the courthouse steps in memory of those killed.
In testimony last week, Breivik mentioned the song as an example of how he believes "cultural Marxists" had infiltrated Norwegian schools, triggering a Facebook initiative for yesterday's protests.
In court, people who survived Breivik's car bomb in Olso's government district gave evidence as he listened expressionless.
Anne Helene Lund, 24, was just 7 meters from the explosion. She was in a coma for a month.
Her father, Jan Erik Lund, told the court: "It was like experiencing the worst and the best in the same moment. It was fantastic she was alive, horrible she was as injured as she was."
The defiant protest against the right-wing fanatic took place as survivors gave evidence in his trial for the July 22 bombing-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people, mostly teenagers.
Some 40,000 people converged at a central square in Oslo in the pouring rain to sing the 1970s song "Children of the Rainbow" - a version of US folk singer Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Race."
Later they were to lay roses on the courthouse steps in memory of those killed.
In testimony last week, Breivik mentioned the song as an example of how he believes "cultural Marxists" had infiltrated Norwegian schools, triggering a Facebook initiative for yesterday's protests.
In court, people who survived Breivik's car bomb in Olso's government district gave evidence as he listened expressionless.
Anne Helene Lund, 24, was just 7 meters from the explosion. She was in a coma for a month.
Her father, Jan Erik Lund, told the court: "It was like experiencing the worst and the best in the same moment. It was fantastic she was alive, horrible she was as injured as she was."
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