For many years it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months travel the world through coups d'etat assassinations famines massacres and tsunamis and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

In its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.