The Rainbow Warrior Bombing

The Rainbow Warrior bombing

THE bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July, 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy. But a greater tragedy is the horrendous legacy of Pacific nuclear testing for the people of Rongelap, the Marshall Islands and “French” Polynesia, the associated military oppression in Kanaky (New Caledonia), and lingering secrecy. The post The Rainbow Warrior bombing appeared first on Post Courier.

The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the population in conditions that suggested the islanders were being used as guinea pigs to gain knowledge of the effect…

Operation Exodus: The Rainbow Warrior's last Pacific mission

Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of Technology. His new book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior covers the Greenpeace vessel’s final mission, the 1985 Pacific Peace Voyage, assisting the Rongelap Islanders of the Marshall Islands to relocate after suffering the devastating health legacy of the US nuclear tests of the 1950s. (Photo: Alyson Young / AUT) Forty years ago, o…