There were two teenagers of Indian origin on Utoeya Island where the terrible carnage took place. Both of them miraculously survived the attack'
A weaver from Varanasi revealed that in 2008 , Anders (the shooter) had ordered badges from his workshop. The badges were meant for his uniform. The weaver and his family are shocked and stunned to hear about the evil acts of Anders. It was the last job they did, not they are into power looms.
These stories appeared in the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Grief, tragedy, loss, even violence unites people of distant lands together. One or two Swedish nations were killed in a train accident a few weeks ago in our state.
The people of Norway have diplayed immeasurable courage and fortitude while dealing with a catastrophe of such magnitude. Someone said in Norway one doesn 't see heavy policing. The citizens are so law abiding and peaceful.
But there is hope for all of us. Hope, if we turn towards our Creator. And look towards Him for comfort, strength and protection. I live in an unstable society. I need it 24/7. Read about the lives of minorities ( like Christians) and others in this article A NEW LAW FOR AN OLD PROBLEM
And this is Prableen 's story
When the gun fell silent on Norway's Utoeya island, Prableen Kaur, an 18-year-old, found herself lying on top of a dead body in the woods, with two more bodies piled on top of her. She had lay like that for an hour. Minutes earlier, as she played dead, trying not to breath, her mobile phone had rung. The killer, right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, lurked nearby, stalking his innocent young victims, 93 of whom died.
Now Prableen’s blog about Friday’s massacre has become an Internet sensation. “I had a guardian angel,” writes Prableen, vice chairperson of the Oslo division the Norwegian Labour Party’s youth wing. Hundreds have posted messages comforting her.
On Sunday, Prableen and her family — father Malkeet Singh, a cab driver from Patiala, mother, brother and sister — offered prayers at the local Gurdwara in Oslo. The teenager is at home now, recovering from the nightmare, her father told HT.
In a country that is home to some 5,000 Sikhs, a second Indian-origin teenager, Pratap Singh, 15, also survived the massacre.
When a bomb exploded at the Labour party office in Oslo, killing seven people, Prableen wrote in her blog, “We comforted one another that we were safe on an island. No-one knew that hell would break out among us as well.”
Then shots ran out in Utoeya. “I saw him shoot. Everyone began to run. The first thought was, ‘Why is the police shooting at us? What the hell?!’”
The teenagers ran into a room as Breivik continued to shoot and jumped out of a window. She spotted her best friend through the window but couldn’t get to him. She “saw the fear in his eyes.”
They ran into the woods, stopping only to help the injured as they made their way down to the lake Tyrifjorden that surrounds the island, 40 km from Oslo. Crouching behind a brick wall along with others, she prayed, cried and called her family and friends from her mobile phone.
“A man came. ‘I am from the police’.” Someone shouted back that he had to prove it, and the killer started to shoot. “He reloaded. Shot more. He shot those around me. I remained lying. I thought: ‘Now it is over. He is here.”
Prableen lay there for an hour, buried under dead bodies.
Then she ran for the lake and, tearing off her jumper, began to swim, heading for a rubber boat several children were clinging on to.
She became so tired she turned on her back, using only her feet to paddle.
Rescued by police, the children were taken to a hotel, where she was reunited with her best friend.
“I don’t manage to sleep any more,” Prableen writes.
Please visit my Norwegian friend FELISOL 'S BLOG
to read a personal account of this tragedy
8 Fertilize my soul:
Dear Amrita,
So the massacre has reached all the way to India. That is simply too gruesome.
Most of the survivors have similar stories to tell, they've got a heavy burden to carry further on in their lives.
Help, physic, psychic and financially have and will be offered all the victims and their relatives.'
The mass murderer has said he partly did this, so that his name should not be forgotten. We have therefore decided not to mention him by name any-more. Even our prime minister has followed that line.
I thank you for all your prayers.
From Felisol
I probably saw this teenager in TV two days ago. Some of survivors told that they survived because they played dead people on the grass. Norway was so calm country, I knew some people from Norway. They told me about too big number of Muslims in Norway, but it isn't the reason to kill innocent people.
My h3eart goes out to the survivors a- can 't imagine the trauma they are having to deal with.
The Nowe3gian people are veryt self controlled, brave and courageous.
That was the most horrible tragedy that struck Norway since WW2. That a person dressed in a police uniform shot and killed all those innocent youths, made the killing more surreal. It was as if reason had gone out of fashion in that island of carnage. Great that there were those who survived the carnage. Let us all pray for the survivors and the family of those who died in this dastardly crime against humanity. This is similar to the Holocaust of WW2 and the killing fields of Pol Pot of Cambodia. Both were termed genocides by the whole world. Thanks for the gripping post. God bless you always.
Such an unthinkable tragedy. The people of Norway as Felisol has mentioned are wise not to mention the killer by name.
My prayers are for those family and friends and for all the people of this beautiful land.
I am finding out more details here than on our news. What a tragic ordeal and loss of young life. Praying for the healing to begin.
My heartfelt prayers....
Norway most certainly is in need of our prayers at this time.
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