US EditionYou Still Can't Sink a Rainbow, Greenpeace Boss Says 40 Years After Bombing
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You still can't sink a rainbow, Greenpeace boss says 40 years after bombing
Forty years after the Rainbow Warrior bombing, Greenpeace International’s executive director Mads Christensen says the attack only made the movement stronger and proved that “you can’t sink a rainbow”. He tells RFI how one act of violence inspired generations of activists and continues to fuel their fight for the planet.
The action, ordered by the French government, caused a wave of indignation that marked a turning point in the environmental struggle and the definitive impetus for the environmental NGO.
Rainbow Warrior 40 years on
It was the rage I remember most. The naked rage that the French, a country we spilled blood for in 2 world wars, would bomb us in our harbour was the deepest memory I have of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. I was 11 years old when it happened. The breaking news in the sleepy Shire of New Zealand that our boat, our Rainbow Warrior had been bombed, was the cultural equivalence to someone assassinating Big Bird from Sesame Street. The Rainbow W…
On July 10, 1985, the Rainbow Warrior, a ship of the NGO Greenpeace, exploded in the port of Auckland, north of New Zealand, on the eve of sailing for a campaign against French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Fernando Pereira, a photographer and activist on board, was drowned.The French secret services were responsible, following orders from the high spheres of the State.The revelation of the intellectual authors and the details of the attack, by …
It's been four decades since the attack that triggered the global environmentalist movement.
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