The saying: "You can run but you just can't hide" has a special place in my heart. I wish that I had invented it. Some 8 years ago, a Malaysian airline aircraft was flying over Eastern Ukraine on the way to Europe. A Russian anti-aircraft missile battery got a radar lock on the plane. They fired several extremely brutal missiles loaded with a form of buckshot. When the missiles impacted the plane, the aircraft was torn apart. 283 passengers and 15 crew members died in the vicious attack. Russian separatists led by Russian officers claimed that they thought that the passenger plane was a Ukrainian transport plane. The passenger aircraft had a transponder transmitting on several open channels identifying it as a Malaysian transport plane. A massive and intense worldwide investigation followed. Eventually murder charges were laid in Holland against people who fired the anti-aircraft missiles that killed so many innocent people. Convictions were obtained. All of the convicted men are being sheltered in Russia by Putin. Here is an excellent link if you want more details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
I
saw the most amazing article this morning in the FT of London. A crowdfunding
site in Ukraine has raised a $150,000 US award for the capture or perhaps the
killing ("Wanted Dead Or Alive") of the man deemed to be the leader
of those who killed so many innocent people-Igor Girkin.
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