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The sinking, and subsequent investigation, was the subject of several films, including The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (1988) and The Rainbow Warrior (1993). Murder in the Pacific is a three-part documentary about the sinking, directed by Chloe Campbell.
Parsons, who called himself the "Rainbow Warrior", [2] pleaded guilty to the murder. [3] During his sentencing hearing, Parsons said that he killed Ernest to fend off a homosexual advance, but was unable to present any evidence to support this claim in his defense.
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.
[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]
Murder victim Michael Corrado. Michael Corrado was the victim of a fatal bar fight in 2009. Originally from Detroit, the 22-year-old moved to Ohio to run a toy store. At the time of his death, his ...
He supported the sabotage team that travelled to New Zealand and bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior, drowning photographer Fernando Pereira. He was apprehended by New Zealand police together with a fellow agent Dominique Prieur, both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 22 November 1985.
It was also a return to normalcy for the No. 1-ranked Rainbow Warriors, who were swept by No. 2 Long Beach State 25-22, 25-20, 30-28 at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. ...
Freshman Louis Sakanoko, who played the first five sets of his Rainbow Warriors career, had 12 aces, including a school-record-tying nine in a match that went only three sets.