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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.
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.
Since the early 1970s, a legend of Rainbow Warriors has inspired some environmentalists and hippies with a belief that their movement is the fulfillment of a Native American prophecy. Usually the "prophecy" is claimed to be Hopi or Cree .
Rainbow Warrior, former fishing trawler Sir William Hardy, acquired by Greenpeace in 1978 and sunk by the French intelligence service in 1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, in 1985; Rainbow Warrior, auxiliary three-masted schooner, acquired by Greenpeace in 1989; Rainbow Warrior, purpose-designed Greenpeace ship
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.
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (Seediq: Seediq Bale ⓘ; literally Real Seediq or Real Men; Chinese: 賽德克·巴萊; pinyin: Sàidékè Bālái) is a 2011 Taiwanese historical drama film written and directed by Wei Te-sheng and produced by John Woo, based on the 1930 Musha Incident in central Taiwan.
Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) was a three-masted schooner most notable for service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that the French intelligence service (DGSE) bombed in 1985 in the Port of Auckland , New Zealand , which sank the ...
The 2024–25 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball team represents the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Rainbow Warriors, led by tenth-year head coach Eran Ganot, play their home games at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center located in Honolulu, Hawaii as members of the Big West Conference.