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Judges and lawyers were permitted to view wreckage and survey the extent of the damage of the airliner shot down over Ukraine. Four suspects, three Russians and one Ukrainian, are being tried in absentia.
Dutch Judges View Reconstructed MH17 Plane Ahead Of Murder Trial
May 27, 2021 16:13 GMT
Dutch judges viewed the reconstructed shell of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 ahead of a trial for four suspects to be held in The Hague. The incident killed 283 passengers and 15 crew members when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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Lawyers inspect the reconstructed shell of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at the Gilze-Rijen Air Base in the Netherlands on May 26.
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The judges will oversee the murder trial of Russian nationals Oleg Pulatov, Igor Girkin, and Sergei Dubinsky, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. The four are being tried in absentia on 298 counts of murder. Only Pulatov has hired a defense team. The Dutch government said the plane was downed by separatists using a Russian-made Buk missile launcher. Russia denies any involvement in the incident.
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Subscriber only Not that long ago, teachers got out a cane and struck their students. It was the culture of the day. It was normal. Now, more enlightened as we are, we look back in dismay at this era of corporal punishment in schools. High school teacher and author Brendan Murray believes future generations, in turn, will look back on our current obsession with data, the standardised testing of NAPLAN (National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy) and ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) in much the same way. Murray says the Australian educational system is now fixated on numbers to the extent there is a risk of the humanity of the students becoming invisible .
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