Kia ora and welcome!This website commemorates the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the first Rainbow Warrior and celebrates the ongoing spirit of the Warrior as, 20 years later, it sails the oceans of the world campaigning for a green and peaceful world.
"Bomb the World" used by kind permission of Michael Franti and Spearhead Video footage from Matauri Bay commemorationThis is a short clip taken on board and beneath the Rainbow Warrior in Matauri Bay during the commemoration ceremony on the 10th July Bomb the World music videoMusic video featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead's "Bomb the World" with images of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Rainbow Warrior Anniversary Video News PieceThis is a four minute news feature on the nuclear threat and the significance of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in 1985. It features interviews with former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, Guardian journalist Paul Brown, and Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd Leipold. Rainbow Warrior Radio PodcastListen to a five minute radio programme about the bombing featuring interviews with members of the original crew and the New Zealand police.
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Book by former crewmember
Eyes of Fire
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, David Robie's Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior has been republished. The book is the remarkable tale of the last voyage of the bombed ship to the Marshall Islands.
