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countafit on December 25th, 2024 at 21:11 UTC »

russians shot the plane down to make it look like Ukraine did it. And now it appears russia has done something similar again. More innocent people die. Fuck russia and fuck putin.

gwartabig on December 25th, 2024 at 22:08 UTC »

This, and the fact that the man who perpetrated it got away scot-free still boils my blood to this day.

Rd28T on December 25th, 2024 at 22:33 UTC »

Such a terrible crime.

It affected Australia heavily too. Not to the same scale as the Dutch, but a big impact for us. I remember the RAAF was heavily involved in bringing victims back to the Netherlands:

https://youtu.be/wuvHrxzFV6E?si=JEo7yUer6ft06jZI

There was a big memorial in the cathedral in Sydney, and one of our unofficial National Anthems was re-written for it:

https://youtu.be/ZHZpoLUfJXo?si=v3mp0pGiJp1j_yWE

Many Dutch people migrated to Australia in the 40s-70s, so we all know someone with Dutch heritage. My aunt and uncle traveled from Amsterdam to Sydney via Kuala Lumpur on Malaysian airlines only a couple of days before, they could have so easily been on MH17 if their timings were slightly different.