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Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship involved in campaigns against whaling, seal hunting, nuclear testing and nuclear waste dumping during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (the French intelligence service) bombed Rainbow Warrior in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.
Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985. The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable.
The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, [1] was an act of French state terrorism. [2] Described as a "covert operation" by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence agency , the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), the terrorist attack was carried out on 10 July 1985.
[4] [5] Their instructions were to sink the Rainbow Warrior as the French government suspected that it would be used to protest the upcoming nuclear tests at Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. [4] Prieur's responsibilities were the logistics of the operation, and the evacuation of the agents from the country after the bombing had taken place. [6]
The Rainbow Warrior Case was a dispute between New Zealand and France that arose in the aftermath of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. It was arbitrated by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in 1986, and became significant in the subject of public international law for its implications on state responsibility .
On 10 July 1985, two bombs attached to the outside of the hull of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior while in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, exploded. The bombs were set by agents of the DGSE. This attack caused the death of Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer of Portuguese origins. Hernu had directed three teams of agents to neutralize ...
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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy is a 1988 Australian–New Zealand mini-series based on the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. [1] It was written by David Phillips, and directed by Chris Thomson, and stars Jack Thompson , Brad Davis and Germain Houde .