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World remembers tragedy of Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior fallout still felt, 25 years on * Rowan Callick,  The Australian * July 10, 2010 “…….Around the world, the blowing up of the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, 25 years ago today, still reverberates. The tragedy reinforced powerfully New Zealand’s sense that it had been right to ban nuclear-powered or armed ships, and gave a massive global fillip to the profile of Greenpeace – which was then using Rainbow Warrior as its flagship to interrupt French underground nuclear testing on Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia………..The Rainbow Warrior bombing was undertaken by three teams of French agents, who were assigned to stop the boat leading a protest flotilla to Mururoa…………The captain of the first Rainbow Warrior, Peter Willcox, will attend the keel-laying in Gdansk today, where participants will lay a wreath in memory of the drowned photographer Pereira.

Rainbow Warrior fallout still felt, 25 years on | The Australian

July 12, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | AUSTRALIA, nuclear