What the Norwegian teenagers were singing on Thursday night

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/26/norway-shooting-survivors-honour-activists
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Young activist Hanne Kristine Fridtun, whose body has still not been found after the Utøya shootings, addressed Norway's Labour party conference in April. Photograph: YouTube

For Lejla Selaci and her family, Norway was a sanctuary, a safe haven away from the men with guns who were trying to wipe Kosovans out of existence. Transplanted from Mitrovica to Fredrikstad, a coastal town south of Oslo, Lejla got involved in politics, convinced that words and not weapons were a way to make the world a better place.

Now Lejla is missing, presumed dead at the bottom of the Tyrifjorden, just one of dozens of young activists tipped for the top of Norwegian politics who will never reach adulthood, let alone the Stortinget, Norway's parliament.


Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight." Singing with Lejla was "one of the happiest days of my life" said Berg on Tuesday in Oslo. He and other survivors now plan to sing the song at one of the remembrance services.
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There are no words :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[marions ghost]

2. "words and songs,

not weapons."

Weapons are winning...as they usually do

[malaise]

3. You know I was looking at that entire block of flowers

and wondering

Flowers or Guns?

[riverwalker]

4. Just when I stop crying

there is another story like this.