A good question.Norway's tragedy

A good question,Norway's tragedy

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Told the BBC. "You can never use terror tactics like he has used. But do we want to learn from it?"

That is a good question, no matter its source, and the answer may seem counterintuitive. The depiction of Breivik as unhinged and unaligned has been widely coupled with another idea: of Norway as a violated Eden, its innocence shattered by bomb and bullet.

Human reflex, like breathing or sobbing. As dust from the bombed buildings. Clogged the air and paramedics searched for survivors. The twin massacres in Oslo and the nearby island of Utoya. Norwegians and the wider world began trying to make sense of the senseless. An early template’s discarded after the arrest of Anders Behring Breivik. The horror couldn't be pinned on the familiar of Islamic jihadism. So another narrative began to emerge, of a rarer form of madness. These had been the actions of a psychopath, a lone wolf.

The freedom-loving, anti-Islamization ideals, no matter how much some people would like that."

Breivik did not act in a vacuum. In the propaganda of the slick political parties, ragtag mobs and paramilitary organizations that make up Europe's far right — and the response of the establishment to this diverse movement — lie at least a few of the seeds of Norway's tragedy.

UN agency asks Syria to end repression

UN Voicing concern over the escalating violence in Syria and curtailment of 

The people's access to communication and information services there, a UN agency has said the rights of citizens must be respected and demanded lifting of restrictions on media in that country.

"Reports coming from Syria are alarming," Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO), said.

"The rights of citizens must be respected, as must the rights and security of journalists. This includes the right to freedom of expression.

The decision to shut down internet access and cell phone networks.
Taking note of a promised amnesty and call for national dialogue, she urged the Syrian authorities to "immediately restore internet and cell phone services for citizens, to lift restrictions on the media and to prevent acts of aggression against journalists, so that they can report freely on events as is their duty."

Syria has been in the maelstrom of domestic unrest since March when protesters started taking to the streets to demand democratic reforms and greater civil liberties.

The country's authorities have been widely criticised for their often bloody repression of demonstrations.

The protests are part of a broader uprising this year across North Africa and the Middle East that have already toppled the long-standing regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and led to ongoing conflict in Libya.