Damning Video Shows Pro-Russian Rebels Surprised MH17 Was Civilian
Source: RFE/RL
Damning video obtained by Australian media shows pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine sifting through the wreckage of MH17 and finding to their surprise that the aircraft was civilian rather than military.
Part of the 17-minute video, published one year after the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, appears to include the moment rebels realize a civilian airplane rather than a Ukrainian military jet has crashed.
The video, taken on mobile phones by the rebels themselves, could support initial evidence that the civilian airliner with 298 passangers on board was shot down mistakenly by rebels who believed they had destroyed a Ukrainian Sukhoi air force fighter jet. News Corp Australia, owner of the newspaper, called the video exclusive footage that was taken by the rebels and smuggled out of Donetsk just this week after months of efforts to obtain it.
The newspaper said that the video shows a rebel unit dispatched from Donetsk to the crash site to hunt for Ukrainian military pilots that the rebels believed had parachuted out after rebels shot their jet fighter down.
Read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-video-shows-rebels-surprised-mh17-wreckage-civilian/27133474.html
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Seems like they're conceding the point that Russian-backed rebels shot the plane down, but you see... the moral culpability should really fall on the West for contributing to the conflict.
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Because I'm sure if you were to ask them about the moral culpability for civilian deaths in US drone strikes in Afghanistan, they'd totally tell you you should blame Al Queda and the Taliban for contributing to the conflict and not the people actually firing the missiles...
