Posts Tagged ‘Norway’

BURMA: Reform process hindered by two sources of governing power

February 28, 2013

BURMA: Reform process hindered by two sources of governing power

Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:00 Sai Wansai

President Thein Sein on Tuesday, February 26, met Norway’s prime minister as he kicked off a 10-day visit to Europe aimed at forging stronger ties between Burma and the West. He will be visiting Finland, Austria, Belgium and Italy before returning home on March 8.

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Thousands gather in Oslo to sing song Anders Breivik hates

April 27, 2012

Source:Thousands gather in Oslo to sing song Anders Breivik hates

About 40,000 people sing 1970s song Children of the Rainbow, which Breivik described as Marxist propaganda. Reuters in Oslo

Up to 40,000 Norwegians have staged an emotionally charged singalong in Oslo near the court building where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organisers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.

“It’s we who win,” said guitar-strumming folk singer Lillebjørn Nilsen as he led the mass singalong and watched the crowd sway gently in the rain. Many held roses above their heads, and some wept.

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