MH17: three men found guilty of murdering 298 people in shooting down of plane

A Dutch court has convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of the murders of 298 people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine.

Delivering the verdict in The Hague on Thursday, Judge Hendrik Steenhuis found Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko guilty of the attack. A fourth man was acquitted. Steenhuis also detailed the circumstances of the judgment and the findings that a Buk missile was used to shoot down flight MH17, with the guilty men believing it was a military aircraft. 'Such an error does not, however, detract from the premeditated intent ... The criminal act of downing an aircraft and killing the persons on board was, therefore, part of the plan from the first,' Steenhuis said. The three men remain at large.

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[sergey_]

So, the court has officially recognized 2 things :
1) Russia started war and partially occupied Ukraine in 2014 coz the plane was shut down by an anti aircraft system of Russian army operating by Russian citizens who were Russian military officers in the past.
2) The tragedy is a Russian war crime

[ballshippin]

As bad as it was to have a civilian plane shot down, who's idea was it that it would be perfectly ok to fly a passenger plane over a conflict zone?

[RlxEditsz]

They should have found guilty from 2014 instead of now. Rip to the victims

[SShiJie]

I was just recommended an MH17 video, and now I searched this up

[thetruth]

Iran Air flight 655 1988 US paid 61.8 million and excuses, that made it "different"

[jumangekyo]

As Malaysian itself.. The culprit still Ukraine in Malaysian media, mybe International media will not reveal the true identity of the three shooter due to the conflict right now

[andrewsyrigos]

Have seen many of these typist comments on other articles, I shall respond with saying look how many people fly out of new York over Christmas, the minor of casualties is minimal and take toll on my community, corporal punishment is like aid relief not pretty with sometimes mental scaring, AV, b

[gavinbeacom]

They shouldve declared a no flight zone

[laszlosajn]

The world’s double standard.
When the US Navy shot down Iran Air flight 655 in 1988 | No court case - no convictions – no hassle. What happened then?

Iran Air Flight 655 3 July 1988

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy.
Date: 3 July 1988 Passengers: 274 Number of deaths: 290 Survivors : 0
Summary: Shot down by a missile fired from USS Vincennes;
Flight origin: Mehrabad International Airport; Tehran, Iran

[YDallDay]

But Isreal does the same without any accountability

[jkoning]

sorry for the passagiers but why fly over a war zone

[wynbrown]

I thought Russia and Ukraine were at war with each other.

[ELrussDIABLO]

where ... it says that Ukraine has not closed its airspace to civilian vessels... during hostilities with serapatists? why isn't ukraine responsible for

[finalfrontier]

We have become soft no death penalty. Tax payer ridden free housing and meal for 60 years.

[michaelrpbuckley]

No matter who did it Russia or Ukraine
The reason it happened like so many things happening right now in Ukraine.
If Russia didn't choose to invade Ukraine then this would not have happened.
RIP

[imperatorvespasian]

I have this bridge I am selling, 1 careful owner, has 2 towers and the road bit moves up and down, I will take 1 potato and a bottle of Vodka, any takers?

Willing to accept an extra vodka rather than a Potato, I know how much they cost these days.

[Dan-Martin]

Was it a Russian made missile that hit the plane? Like the one that landed in Poland?

=-)

[rolandderemaux]

Zolang mogelijk gewacht met het veroordelen van de “schuldige” tot het uitkomt en hierbij al het bewijsmateriaal ontoegankelijk verklaren. Jullie schromen werkelijk niets. Mn hart gaat uit naar de nabestaanden