Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
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A pro-Russia militant holds up a stuffed animal as others look on at the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 18, 2014.
The downing of the Malaysian passenger plane over part of Ukraine controlled by Russia-led terrorists is a dire lesson for the world: Vladimir Putin kills those in his way.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was in his way. Although the land-to-air missile was meantmal to murder Ukrainians flying supplies to defend their country from Putin's terrorists, the premeditated murder of people -- be they Ukrainians or members of the other 15 nationalities on the plane -- is that: murder.
