Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
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Jonathan Jones: The MH17 crash images show us what war in Europe looks like in 2014
'The destruction of flight MH17 is, of course, by no means a proven an act of terrorism, as such.'
Television cameras at the place where MH17 fell to earth couldn't help panning back to reveal a vast, low-lying landscape of interminable near-nothingness. A roadside cross, dark against a yellow and violet sky, spoke of centuries of quiet farming and rural life interrupted only by the wars that have churned up Ukraine's history, the tanks that have rolled across this great empty space with its eerie, Rothkoesque light.
