AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands was on Monday to hold a national memorial ceremony for the 298 people who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over war-torn east Ukraine in July.
Flags flew at half mast across the country and at Dutch diplomatic missions abroad ahead of a commemoration in Amsterdam to be attended by 1,600 of the bereaved as well as King Willem Alexander, Queen Maxima and Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The names of all those killed in the July 17 disaster, 193 of them Dutch, will be read out during the musical commemoration starting at 1200 …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
