SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an act of French state-sponsored terrorism. Described as a "covert operation" by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence agency, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), the terrorist attack was carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives (both French citizens) sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, Rainbow Warrior, at the Port of Auckland on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior has received more than 1,998,428 page views. Their biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior is the 349th most popular social activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ranks 349 out of 840. Before them are Catherine Breshkovsky, Anatoly Marchenko, Sumner Paine, Lempira, Sophie Adlersparre, and Mehdi Huseynzade. After them are Dorothy Day, Ninomiya Sontoku, Klara Zamenhof, Wei Jingsheng, Cindy Kiro, and Peter Arshinov.