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Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster


The airliner’s destruction over eastern Ukraine on July 17 might qualify as a war crime or a crime against humanity, but winning a guilty verdict would be difficult because it would require proving there was a systematic or widespread attack against civilians, experts said.

“Malaysia Airlines was a clearly identified commercial jet,” said Tony Tyler, CEO of the global airline industry’s Geneva-based International Air Transport Association.

U.S. officials in Washington have cited communications intercepts, satellite imagery and social media postings as evidence Russia created the “conditions” for the downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane by a missile.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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