Dutch to Try Suspects in ’14 Downing of Malaysia Airlines Jet Over Ukraine<br />By ANDREW E. KRAMERJULY 5, 2017<br />KIEV, Ukraine — An international team of prosecutors investigating the downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine three<br />years ago has decided to try the suspects in a Dutch court, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.<br />The group concluded last year that the powerful surface-to-air missile system used to shoot down the airplane — killing all 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines<br />Flight 17 bound for Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, from Amsterdam — came from Russian territory and was returned to Russia after afterward.<br />Dutch said that have now decided that the suspects should be prosecuted in the Netherlands, a process that will be rooted in on<br />Any criminal indictments in a Dutch court are likely only to open a long legal<br />and diplomatic standoff between the Netherlands and Russia, as the Russian Constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens to stand trial abroad.<br />That seemed to strongly implicate the Russian government, as it is unlikely<br />that anyone not connected with the military would have been able to deploy the missile launcher, called a Buk or SA-11, from Russia into a neighboring country.
