Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

New Zealand, the Rainbow Warrior had visited before leading a group of vessels to Mururoa Atoll to protest against the French nuclear testing that was going to take place in the South Pacific. The Rainbow Warrior had been the flagship of an international environmental organisation, Greenpeace. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ended with the death of Fernando Pereira, who was a photographer who had drowned on the vessel caused by the explosions in the boat. The Rainbow Warrior was a vessel made

Introduction The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was a significant event in the history of New Zealand. It was the first ever act of terrorism in New Zealand. On July the 10th 1985 two French spies planted 2 bombs on Greenpeace’s the Rainbow Warrior. At 11:38pm the first bomb went off blasting a hole about the size of a car. Then at 11:45pm the second bomb went off. Photographer Fernando Pereira drowned when the vessel sunk as after the first blast went off he went a tried to retrieve his camera equipment

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior was an event that truly began when Greenpeace first formed, almost two decades before the bombing in Auckland Harbour occured. In the late 1960s, the United States government planned to carry out nuclear testing on Amchitka, an unstable island in Alaska which had a dangerous fault line and was prone to earthquakes and tsunamis after the serious earthquake in Alaska, 1964. A group known as the ‘Don’t Make A Wave’ committee formed to protest against the nuclear testing

On the 10th of July 1985, the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior was anchored at Marsden wharf in Auckland New Zealand. Ready to confront French nuclear testing in the Moruroa atoll. In an attempt to counteract the protests and campaigning of the flagship that represented New Zealand 's movement against nuclear testing in the Pacific, France bombed and sunk the Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior. The bombing simply done to prolong threats against France’s nuclear testing in the pacific, and

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