China News Service, July 17 (Chen Shuang) "I really don't like watching sunflowers," Dutchman Peter Plog said, "because they will evoke my sad memories."

　　The clock returns to the afternoon of July 17, 2014. On the day six years ago, Boeing MH17, which flew from Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew members. In this accident, more than two-thirds of the victims were Dutch, and three family members of Plog were also among them.

　　Near the crash site is a field of sunflowers.

　　Six years later, no one is still responsible for this tragedy, and the international community is still exploring the truth of the accident...

The picture shows the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Donetsk region, Ukraine.

　Can the report of the five-nation joint investigation represent the truth?

　　After the air crash, the five most affected countries: the Netherlands, Malaysia, Ukraine, Australia and Belgium established a joint investigation team to investigate the accident. However, the results of the investigation are disputed by all parties.

　　In September 2016, the Joint Investigation Mission announced that the MH17 passenger plane was hit by a "beech" missile and crashed. The missile came from the 53rd Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Russian Army in Kursk, Russia.

　　Three years later, investigators announced another murder charge against one Ukrainian and three Russian citizens, saying they were responsible for "the transportation of weapons that shot down passenger aircraft into Ukraine."

On October 13, 2015, the Dutch side showed the media that they had broken the fuselage from the crashed MH17 fragments.

　　However, the results of this investigation did not convince the public.

　　First of all, Russia has repeatedly and firmly denied responsibility for the crash of flight MH17 and accused the joint investigation team of having "prejudices" against Russia. According to the analysis, since Russia is a "significant suspect" and cannot be involved in the investigation, Ukraine, as the country where the accident occurred, needs to be investigated more than to become a member of the joint investigation team. According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that the Russian side was excluded from the joint investigation mission, the Russian side deeply doubts the fairness of the investigation.

　　Russian Deputy Attorney General Winnichenko also pointed out that Russia not only submitted its radar data to the Netherlands, but also submitted documents that could prove that the Ukrainian "beech" missile shot down the Boeing airliner. However, this information was ignored by investigators.

　　Another stakeholder, the Malaysian authorities also expressed doubts about the result. Malaysia’s then Prime Minister Mahathir said that from the beginning, the investigation of the air crash has been politicized, and Russia is becoming a “scapegoat” for the incident. He also revealed that "for some reason", Malaysia was not allowed to investigate the flight recorder of the accident aircraft. Therefore, he expressed doubts about the findings.

The picture shows the Malaysia Airlines MH17 passenger jet crashed in the Donetsk region.

　A mysterious fighter plane reversed the incident? Independent reporter broke the news

　　The joint investigation team also stated that its findings were based on witness testimony from the observation of missile launches, as well as phone recordings between suspects.

　　However, these evidences also have doubts.

　　Independent reporter platform Bonanza Media disclosed that when the MH17 passenger plane crashed that year, many witnesses claimed that a fighter plane had appeared in its vicinity.

　　A man named Boris said he first saw a plane flying overhead and then saw another one. "For a while, everything was quiet. But two minutes later, a loud noise came from the sky... Then I saw a plane fall from behind the clouds, like leaves falling from the trees."

　　Bonanza Media also said that shortly after the crash, Olga Ivshina, a BBC reporter, also arrived near the accident site. She originally tried to find witnesses who saw the missile hitting the plane, but unexpectedly found that many people had another fighter near the MH17 before they saw it fall. Some of them also said that fighter planes use passenger planes as shields. Even more imaginative is that the BBC also withdrew Yvesina’s report on the matter.

　　Experts expressed doubts about evidence such as telephone recordings between so-called "criminals".

　　Russian Satellite Network reported that Akash Rosen, senior investigator of digital data identification at OG IT Forensic Services in Malaysia, believed that the recording of the conversation on the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 flight incident submitted as evidence by the Ukrainian Security Agency was conducted by the bureau Edited.

　　German analyst Norman Ritter agreed with this view, noting that the phone recording was forged through nine different processing stages. Ritter bluntly said: "I really doubt the authenticity of these recordings."

Dutch investigators accused three Russians and one Ukrainian of being involved in the crash. The Dutch prosecutor filed a lawsuit against the four people.

　0 "suspects" are present. What is the significance of the Dutch trial?

　　Although there are many loopholes in the evidence and the results of the investigation are quite controversial, on March 9, 2020 local time, the District Court of The Hague in the Netherlands tried the MH17 air crash.

　　In the courtroom, in stark contrast to the bustling crowd of victims' relatives, journalists, etc., the court's defendant seats were few.

　　Since both Ukrainian and Russian laws prohibit the extradition of their citizens abroad, although the Dutch National Prosecutor’s Office has charged and summoned four suspects, all but one of the defendants entrusted a lawyer to defend them. None of the four defendants appeared in court.

　　For the families of the victims, perhaps the trial of the case may not be able to restore the truth, but only a psychological comfort.

　　The family of the victims who lost their eldest son, daughter-in-law and grandson in the air crash said Anton Cote said he was not very interested in the four defendants. He just wanted to hear one thing-if there is enough evidence, the judge What conclusions are drawn. "This is the most important thing for me," he said.

On November 10, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, four months after the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, relatives and friends of the victims gathered to mourn.

　In the past 6 years, can the 298 victims wait for justice?

　　In the suburbs near Schiphol Airport, at the entrance of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 air crash monument, several withered sunflowers bowed their heads, seemingly mourning for the innocent lives killed, adding a bit of sadness to Ahmedstein.

　　Near the monument, 298 trees were planted, each symbolizing a victim.

　　When the tragedy at the cost of life overlaps with the fighting of interests of various countries in the political fog, the truth seems to be out of reach; the task of seeking justice for the dead and seeking justice for the living can only be relegated.

　　The only certainty is that six years after the MH17 crash, there are still sad mourners crying beside the sunflower. (Finish)