From the wreckage The squat, square buildings of the Schiphol Judicial Complex occupy an unremarkable corner of a nondescript industrial estate near Amsterdam’s airport. This drab landscape of grey car parks and concrete under a leaden sky provides a strange backdrop to the dramatic, highly unusual court case I’ve come to see. The trial of four men accused […]
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile,
A Dutch court on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft as it flew over a separatist-controlled region of eastern Ukraine in 2014. The convictions, along with the…
The convictions were seen as directing blame at the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though the Kremlin has always denied any connection.