The Ukrainian government yesterday published a heartbreaking photo of a dead infant
and accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of having the blood of the baby victim of flight MH17 on his hands.
Senior government advisor Anton
Gerashchenko posted the pic on their website, with a message to Putin
saying: 'This baby's death is on your conscience. Damn you for
centuries!'. He said he agonised
over whether to publish the image of the tiny corpse lying in the field
or not but decided the world needed to see it.
3 infants died after the plane was shot
down on Thursday May 17th by pro-Russian rebels and till today, many
bodies are still lying in fields. Meanwhile yesterday Russian
rebels stopped investigators who arrived the MH17 crash site
from investigating the site, firing several warning shots. And the
rebel commander blamed for shooting down the plane said "bodies aren't
fresh', claiming corpses around the wreckage died before plane took off.
Yes, he said so. Unbelievable! Continue to read...
Monitors
from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
were prevented from conducting their investigation by militiamen during
their first trip to the scene.
The
separatists reportedly fired warning shots as the group of 30 officials
approached, forcing them to leave after just 75 minutes.
The
stand-off fuelled speculation that rebels are beginning a 'cover-up' by
hiding all links to the Buk missile believed to have shot down the
plane.
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| Mr Hug is leading the investigation into the deadly incident - but has been
hindered by a dispute over the location of the black boxes |
Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the OSCE, told CNN:
'It basically looks like the biggest crime scene in the world right
now, guarded by a bunch of guys in uniform with heavy firepower who are
quite inhospitable. And
there didn't seem to be anyone really in control, for example. One of
our top priorities was to find out what happened to the black boxes. No
one was there to answer those questions.'
Bociurkiw also described how the inspectors felt they were in danger as rockets were fired in the distance.
Thomas
Greminger, the body's chairman, added: 'They did not have the kind of
access that they expected. They did not have the freedom of movement
that they need to do their job.'
Amid
the confusion over the whereabouts of the black boxes, the Russian
foreign minister was forced to deny having ‘any plans’ to grab the
flight recorders following the allegations.
Meanwhile,
the rebel commander blamed for shooting down flight MH17 has made
bizarre claims that bodies at the crash site 'aren't fresh'.
Pro-Russian separatist Igor Girkin (pictured above) has claimed corpses near the debris died days before the plane took off.
According
to rebel website Russkaya Vesna, the leader was told by people at the
scene in eastern Ukraine that 'a significant number of the bodies were
drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.'
Girkin,
also known as Strelkov and allegedly a former Russian intelligence
agent, also suggested that a large amount of blood serum and medications
in the wreckage.
The information has not been confirmed but the commander said: 'Ukrainian authorities are capable of any baseness.'
He was said to be among the laughing rebels that filmed the plane as it crashed
Footage
is said to have captured him gleefully bragging: ‘That was a blast –
look at the smoke!’ while a fireball rose from the debris.
The
extraordinary footage – apparently filmed by the shooters themselves –
charts the terrible final moments of the doomed airliner.
A
voice believed to be that of Strelkov – dubbed ‘Igor the Terrible’ –
announces: ‘The plane was hit!’ He adds: ‘Look at those black spots,
these are the parts, flying … it was a blast … look, look, black
smoke!'
As
a pall of smoke was seen coming from the crash site, he wrote a
triumphant war cry on Twitter, saying: ‘We warned you – do not fly in
"our sky”.’
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 was shot down Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard.
Source: UK Daily Mail
