The Rainbow Warrior had been used to lead a flotilla of yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia and was being prepared for a campaign of demonstrations within French military operational areas. Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1980s. ... Moruroa (Mururura, Mururoa) (21°50S., 138°55W.) is an atoll in which forms part of the Tuamoto archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. ... Categories: Stub | Polynesia ...
External links
"Death of a Rainbow Warrior," July 10, 2005 (20th anniversary), Greenpeace website.
Major FernandoPereira led the group of São Toméan military officers who temporarily overthrew the democratically elected government in mid-July 2003.
Pereira is Head of the office of the Chief of General Staff of the armed forces.
During a press conference, Major FernandoPereira, the leader of the coup, declared that it was inconceivable for the majority of the population to live below the poverty threshold while a small group of people enjoyed a luxurious life, laughing at the humiliations suffered by the rest.
FernandoPereira, freelance photographer for Greenpeace killed in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Fernando had joined the Warrior in Hawaii, having signed on for a 6 months tour that was supposed to take him from the Marshall Islands, in the North Pacific, to Moruroa, in the South Pacific.
Marelle Pereira holds a picture of her father, Fernando, killed in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior when she was eight years old.
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