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The Netherlands mark 10th anniversary of flight MH17 downing

Ten years on, the Netherlands commemorate victims of flight MH17

20:29, 17.07.2024
  aa/mw/aw;   Reuters
Ten years on, the Netherlands commemorate victims of flight MH17 The Netherlands commemorated on Wednesday the 298 victims of flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine 10 years ago.

The Netherlands commemorated on Wednesday the 298 victims of flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine 10 years ago.

Relatives gather during a memorial meeting for the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 air disaster at the monument in Dudok Park, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Photo: PAP/EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL
Relatives gather during a memorial meeting for the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 air disaster at the monument in Dudok Park, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Photo: PAP/EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL

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The ceremony was attended by the bereaved and representatives from Malaysia, Australia, Britain, Belgium and Ukraine.

During the ceremony, which took place at the MH17 monument in the village of Vijfhuizen near Amsterdam, loved ones read out the names of all the victims. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces, the precursor of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
All 283 passengers, including 196 Dutch citizens, and 15 crew members were killed, leaving the plane’s wreckage and the victims’ remains scattered across fields of corn and sunflowers.

Based on an international investigation, a Dutch court in 2022 said there was no doubt the plane was shot down by a Russian missile system and that Moscow had “overall control” of the forces of the separatist “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine from May 2014.

The Dutch court also convicted two former Russian intelligence agents and a Ukrainian separatist leader in absentia of murder for their roles in transporting the Russian military BUK missile system into eastern Ukraine, which was used to shoot down the plane.

Mark Rutte, prime minister when the disaster happened, and a strong critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin ever since, drew applause for his efforts during his time in office to keep the international spotlight on the incident.

“Justice requires a long, long breath,” said Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, who took office earlier this month, adding that “a conviction is not the same as having someone behind bars.” Commemorating the victims, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media platform X that Russia’s accountability “is inevitable.”

“Russia murdered the MH17 victims twice. First with a missile. Second, with lies that abused their memory and hurt their relatives,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba added. Moscow continues to deny any responsibility for the downing of MH17’s, consistently denying it had any presence in Ukraine back in 2014. However, the EU’s outgoing foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday called on Russia to finally accept its responsibility.

He said: “The evidence presented makes it abundantly clear that the BUK surface-to-air missile system used to bring down Flight MH17 belonged beyond doubt to the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

“No Russian disinformation operation can distract from these basic facts, established by a court of law.”
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