Bano Rashid was the first of the Utøya victims to be buried. She was Kurdish and came to Norway together with her family from Iraq in 1996. She lived in a suburb to Oslo, planned to study law after high school and hoped to become a member of the Norwegian parliament. She was a candidate to the local council in the upcoming election in September. Political issues she cared about was a free Kurdistan, feminism and public transportation. She wrote letters to the main newspaper in Oslo, Aftenposten. The last letter was called "De som stemmer, bestemmer", "Those who vote, decide".
TV2 interviewed Bano at Utøya only a couple of hours before she was killed. It was heavy rain and she had lent her rubber boots to former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland who was visiting the camp. Please watch. She is all smiles.
Her younger sister who also was at Utøya survived the massacre.