Netherlands takes Russia to European court over MH17 downing

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'Achieving justice for the 298 victims of the downing of flight MH17 is and will remain the government's highest priority,' Foreign Minister Stef Blok said in a statement.

MH17. A picture taken on November 7, 2014, shows a part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove , some 80km east of Donetsk. File photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

"By taking this step today, bringing a case before the ECHR and thus supporting the applications by the next of kin as much as we can, we are moving closer to this goal."The lawsuit is a rare example of one state taking another to the European Court of Human Rights, with just 24 such cases since 1953.Most cases are brought by individuals or groups, such as the one lodged by the relatives of at least 65 Dutch MH17 victims in 2018.

Russia has denied involvement and has before proposed alternative theories including that MH17 may have been downed by a Ukrainian fighter plane or a Ukrainian BUK missile.

 

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