War crime case

JUDGES from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), have ruled that the case against Russia for war crimes and the shooting down of the flight MH17 in 2014 can proceed to trial, saying that parts of eastern Ukraine in Donbas were under Russian control between 2014 and the invasion last year.

The decision was announced on Wednesday, January 25, finally moving towards bringing justice for the victims killed and their families.

The 2014 grounding of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, with a missile shot by Russian controlled forces killed all 298 passengers and crew on board. The Netherlands has been a prominent backer of the case reaching trial for breaches of the human rights convention as the country accounted for 196 of the passengers on board the flight.

Judges at the ECHR say that Russia was still a party in the