Sipping a can of beer and devouring french fries in a Brussels hotel room, Eliot Higgins doesn't look like the type to get involved in armed conflicts. The Englishman has a baby face, slumped shoulders and a soft Midlands accent. But over the past three years, the 36-year-old former administrator and obsessive gamer has spent hundreds of hours scouring the Internet to find out the truth about faraway wars - from the use of chemical weapons in Syria to Russian troops invading Ukraine - all from the comfort of his couch.
Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
Newsweek: Meet Eliot Higgins, Putin’s MH17 nemesis
Dutch and Malaysian investigators and local authorities work, on April 23, 2015 on the site where the bulk of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky near the village of Grabove in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
