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Top civil servants feared social unrest in the Netherlands in the days following the MH17 plane disaster, newly-released papers reveal.

After monitoring social media in the wake of the downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight from Amsterdam in July 2014, killing 298 people, officials warned that this kind of ‘anger and impotence can lead to social unrest,’ reports the NOS.

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