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Fernando Pereira

See also Fernando "Cobo" Pereira for the officer of São Tomé and Príncipe.Fernando Pereira is also a well known computer science researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fernando Pereira (1950July 10, 1985) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) used two underwater mines to sink the ship
Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmentalist organisation Greenpeace on July 10, 1985 (see sinking of the Rainbow Warrior).

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 (see mission SATANIC) and was being prepared for a campaign of demonstrations within French military operational areas.

External links

* "Death of a Rainbow Warrior," July 10, 2005 (20th anniversary), Greenpeace website.



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