AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The 30th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in New Zealand is approaching.
The original Greenpeace vessel, used for campaigning against nuclear testing, was bombed twice in a matter of minutes and sunk by two French secret agents in the port of Auckland on 10 July 1985.
To mark the occasion, journalism and television students from the Auckland University of Technology have started on an educational story-telling project for a microsite this week.
Pacific journalism majors Anya Truong-George and Mabel Muller are enthusiastic about the task and talk about being part of one of New Zealand’s most historically significant events.
The project is being organised by the Pacific Media Centre and the School of Communication Studies in association with Little Island Press, which is shortly republishing a 1986 book about the bombing and last voyage, Eyes of Fire, by David Robie, with fresh content.
Dr Robie, Pacific Media Centre director, was awarded the 1985 NZ Media Peace Prize for his reportage of the voyage and the sabotage.
Rainbow Warrior III is currently in Vanuatu on a post-cyclone humanitarian relief assignment.
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