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    Re: Bellingcat and the lickspittle Dutch at it again re:MH17 Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on June 19, 2019, 1:56 pm, in reply to "Bellingcat and the lickspittle Dutch at it again re:MH17"

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/mh17-criminal-charges-ukraine-russia

    Four suspects will face murder charges for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, three of them Russians, international investigators said on Wednesday, with a trial due to start next March in the Netherlands.

    Almost five years after the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, prosecutors said there was enough evidence to bring criminal charges.

    The suspects were named as Igor Girkin, a former colonel of Russia’s FSB spy service; Sergey Dubinskiy, employed by Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency; and Oleg Pulatov, a former soldier with the GRU’s special forces spetsnaz unit. All were Russian soldiers previously sent abroad.

    A fourth suspect, Leonid Kharchenko, is a Ukrainian. He led a military combat unit in the city of Donetsk as a commander, it was alleged.

    International arrest warrants have now been been sent out, with the individuals placed on lists internationally, the chief Dutch prosecutor, Fred Westerbeke, said. All four had been involved in bringing the Buk missile system which shot down the plane from Russia to Ukraine.

    He said the investigation had found and interrogated witnesses, analysed satellite images, and sifted through phone calls and other data. The area of investigation in eastern Ukraine was still inaccessible to the team, Westerbeke said, making the process difficult.

    A roundabout way of saying, "This isn't based on any evidence, it's just a pile of anti-russian accustations that we've been told to knock up".

    Investigators said the soldiers “formed a chain linking DNR with the Russian Federation”. This link was how the separatists obtained heavy equipment from Russia including the Buk launcher used to fire at MH17 with “terrible consequences”.

    The accused did not push the button themselves but were responsible for bringing the anti-aircraft system to eastern Ukraine. They could therefore be held criminally liable and charged with murdering 298 people, investigators said.

    So are we going to see Lockheed Martin and BAE executives being charged in the same way for crimes in Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan? British spooks for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the middle-east? What's that? Silence? Oh, I see.

    On Wednesday the investigative website Bellingcat published new details of individuals allegedly involved in the shooting down of MH17. They include 12 military commanders and separatist fighters, some of them Russian and linked to the GRU.

    Bellingcat’s report claims the military intelligence wing of the DNR played a key role. It was “instrumental” in procuring the Buk missile launcher that downed MH17, and in arranging its transport to Ukraine from Russia, and back to Russian territory, it says.

    I wonder if that fat wanker Higgins is going to be showing some nice videos of missiles from completely different parts of the country driving around and acting like he's Poirot and solved the crime of the century.

    They really make me sick.

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