A year ago the world received the awful news of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 and the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew.
The plane, shot down over the Donetsk region in Eastern Ukraine amid fighting between pro-Russian separatist militias and the Ukrainian army, was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Most of the victims were Dutch. Australians mourned the 38 Australian citizens or permanent residents killed on board.
Dutch and Australian police at the crash site, August 2014. (Wikipedia.)
A year on, a swirl of questions remains: above all, who pulled the trigger, and why?
The preliminary Dutch Safety Board …read more
MH17 tragedy galvanised world opinion against Russia
