Keyword: Rainbow Warrior

Remebering an Era Filled with the Spirit of Solidarity when Seafaring Refugees were Helped Rather than Abandoned

Picture: The Rainbow Warrior that was sunk by French intelligence agents to prevent it from protesting against France Anna Majavu - It will be 30 years next month since French intelligence agents bombed the first Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, sinking the ship and killing one crew member. The event is currently being commemorated around the world. What is less well known about the anti-whaling ship is that it was also instrumental in transporting indigenous Pacific Islanders from their homes which had been contaminated by American nuclear testing. The citizens of Rongelap in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands...