Perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice: Malaysia
July 18, 2014  11:56
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak today demanded that perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice. "This is a tragic day in what has already been a tragic year for Malaysia. The flight's passengers were from many nations but we are all united in grief," Najib said today.

The Boeing 777 was on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and it had not made a distress call. It is still not clear if the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down purposely or mistakenly yesterday.

Najib said a probe would begin immediately into it. "The government of Malaysia is dispatching a special flight to Kiev, carrying a special Malaysia disaster assistance and rescue team, as well as a medical team," he told reporters at a press conference.

He said that Ukrainian authorities believed that the plane was shot down by pro-Russia rebels but that Malaysia was unable to verify this at this moment. "If it transpires that the plane was indeed shot down, we insist that the perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice," he said. Najib said he had talked to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko who pledged a thorough investigation into the incident.
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