MH17 crash victims reparations, A lawyer for relatives of victims killed when Malaysia Airlines

 MH17 crash victims reparations, A lawyer for relatives of victims killed when Malaysia Airlines.

A lawyer for relatives of victims killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 has told trial judges that the families want damages as a recognition of the injustice they have suffered.

Lawyer Arlette Schijns was speaking at the resumption of the Dutch trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with offences including mass murder for their alleged involvement in the downing of MH17.

All 298 passengers and crew - including 38 Australian citizens and residents - on board the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when the plane was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014, by a Buk missile.

Schijns, who is representing 450 relatives, urged the court not to lose sight of the suffering of the hundreds of people who lost their loved ones as she addressed the judges on legal questions linked to families’ right to claim damages.