Latest articles on Anders Behring Breivik

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Slowly, Norway reclaims the land where it lost its innocence

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Aug 2015

For the first time since Breivik murdered 69 people on Utøya, the political youth group he attacked has returned to the Norwegian island to camp.

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Complicit in a tide of hate and violence

Analysis Staff Reporter - 16 Jul 2015

South Africans are spewing vitriol on a website that is said to be stoking the fires of hate crimes.

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Embrace the things we share in this scary, polarised world

Article Bongani Kona - 27 Nov 2014

The Oslo World Music Festival paid tribute to the role of music in addressing historical and contemporary struggles for freedom.

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Europe’s far right shuns Breivik’s acts, but flirts with ideas

Article Reuters - 26 Aug 2012

Security specialists worry that far-right social media commentary stigmatising Europe's Muslims may help push enthusiasts towards militancy.

Norway mass killer Breivik sentenced to 21 years in prison

Article Frank Zeller - 24 Aug 2012

Thirteen months after his killing spree, far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik has been sentenced to the maximum prison term in Norway.

Verdict expected in Breivik marathon trial

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Aug 2012

An Oslo court is to hand down its verdict on Friday against Anders Behring Breivik for his twin attacks last year that left 77 people dead.

Ubuntu lifted Norway, so why not South Africa?

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Jul 2012

Liv Torres reflects on the day that shattered Norway's image of being the most peaceful country in the world when 77 people were killed in an attack.

Norway youths describe being hunted by Breivik

Article Staff Reporter - 14 May 2012

Norwegians wounded in Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage have testified about how he hunted them down and used the trial to taunt the killer.

Witnesses describe Breivik’s ruse to get to Utoeya

Article Staff Reporter - 3 May 2012

A guard and a ferry captain have detailed how Anders Behring Breivik tricked them into allowing him to go to Utoeya Island, where he killed 69 people.

Breivik victim: ‘Everything went black’

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Apr 2012

A man who had his leg amputated after a bomb planted by Anders Behring Breivik tore through his body has spoken about his harrowing ordeal.

Breivik takes in ‘war zone’ testimony

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Apr 2012

Anders Behring Breivik has listened silently as others describe the mayhem caused by his bombing, a scene one witness described as a "war zone".

Norwegian mass killer victim of ‘discrediting plot’

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Apr 2012

Norway's self-confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is at pains to convince the court of his sanity when he killed 77 people last year.

Harrowing testimony in Norway killer’s trial

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Apr 2012

Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik has shocked an Oslo courtroom as he calmly described hunting teenagers on an island summer camp.

Norwegian mass killer’s full plans come to light

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Apr 2012

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik says he planned to kidnap and decapitate former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his massacre.

Norway killer: ‘I have embraced death’

Article Alistair Scrutton - 18 Apr 2012

Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik says he should be executed or acquitted after killing 77 people in what he said was a battle to defend Europe.

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