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Rainbow Warrior (1955)

Greenpeace vessel bombed by French intelligence operatives in Auckland harbour (1985)

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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 bombed Rainbow Warrior in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.

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Image: Koen Suyk / Anefo, CC0 · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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