Rainbow Warrior (New Zealand v. France) - Case Brief for.
Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace boat active in supporting a number of anti-whaling, anti-seal hunting, anti-nuclear testing and anti-nuclear waste dumping campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The ship was bombed in the Port of Auckland in New Zealand by operatives of the French intelligence service on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.Causes Key Individuals and Groups Actions Taken Opposition Consequences and effect on New Zealand Damage caused at Hiroshima Hiroshima and Nagasaki An extremely long-term cause of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was the use of nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, In August, 1945. This happened in the final phase of the second world war, and at this point, the war.Event: The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Causes of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. There were many causes of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985. In August 1 945 the US used the atomic bomb for the first time against Japan by bombing the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This caused the war to end, however after the war.
In Auckland harbor in New Zealand, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sinks after French agents in diving gear plant a bomb on the hull of the vessel. One person, Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira.The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior: Responses to an International Act of Terrorism.
The Rainbow Warrior was raised to be sunk again further offshore as a marine habitat. A new Rainbow Warrior was launched in 1989. Many of its purpose-designed fittings were paid for with compensation from the French Government. In 1998 France ratified the international nuclear test ban treaty. By then it had carried out 193 nuclear tests around.
