The Discovery Channel (DStv 121) has its rush documentary Norway Massacre: The Killer's Mind today at 20:55. It examines the horrific events of 22 July when Anders Behring Breivik killed 8 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and another 69 teenagers on Utoya Island in Norway.
The hour long special examines the mind and the motives of the self-confessed assassin who's responsible for these heinous killings which took place at the end of last month and shocked the world. Norway Massacre: The Killer's Mind provides new insight into Anders Breivik's motives by some of the world's leading experts on criminal psychology, including Professor David Wilson and Johns Hopkins University's Katherine Newman.
''South Africa, like the rest of the world was shocked by this terrible tragedy, which has left us all wondering what conditions could provoke somebody to commit such an atrocity and why,'' says Lee Hobbs, channel director for emerging business for Discovery Networks' CEEMEA region. ''Discovery Networks is proud to bring its South African viewers a documentary special that will explore the motivations that led to such a tragic loss of life and present the facts around the activities that left a nation in mourning.''
Norway Massacre: The Killer's Mind has special first-hand accounts from eyewitnesses and survivors who've lived to tell the tale. The documentary done with remarkable speed also charts the hour-by-hour events as the bomb explosion and island murder rampage tragedy unfolded.
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