Five hundred family members of the Utoya Massacre victims were permitted to visit the island where their loved ones were gunned down in the worst shooting rampage in human history.
The confessed perpetrator, Anders Brievik has been sitting in solitary confinement for most of the two months since. According to judicial ruling, he could be held in isolation until mid-October, and may have to wait until mid November before being permitted visitors and correspondence with the outside world. He is being kept in isolation to prevent contact with possible accomplices, and to prevent him from tampering with evidence. Brievik has complained that this treatment is "sadistic torture." One wonders when in where in history he would have preferred prison to 21st century Norway?
Norwegian police meanwhile have released transcripts of phone conversations that occured between Brievik and police during his drug-fueled killing spree. Apparently "the commander of the Norwegian anti-Communist Resistance Movement" twice called police and offered to surrender. But he went on killing kids for another 28 minutes before they finally arrived.
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