Western media ‘misrepresents’ Dutch report on MH17
The Western media is “misrepresenting” the Dutch report on MH17’s fall in eastern Ukraine pretending a “Russian-made missile” is necessarily used by Russia, says Don DeBar, a political commentator and radio host based in New York.
“Flight MH17 crashed as a result of the detonation of a warhead outside the airplane above the left-hand side of the cockpit,” said Tjibbe Joustra, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, after an investigation into the scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being shot down.
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) released the investigation report into the on Tuesday, confirming that the airliner was downed by a Buk missile system in Eastern Ukraine, controlled by pro-Russia elements since the onset of the crisis in Ukraine.
Buk was “actually something made by the Soviet Union in the 1980s which, of course, included Ukraine,” DeBar said.
Ukraine itself is listed among the countries in possession of Buk missiles, along with many others, including Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus.
The report did not necessarily say the missile was shot from the territory of the pro-Russian but an area of 123 square kilometers there, he argued.
“It took no position… where within that territory it happened and who had control of that territory,” said the analyst.
The “presentation” of the report by the Western media indicates that “Russia was responsible but in fact it said nothing of the kind,” the New York-based commentator noted.
“The entire media here left people that impression not just with the headlines but even with the bulk of stories they published.”
Moreover, the team that probed the incident included Ukraine, DeBar identified as “one of the suspects” and not Russia on which the attack has been blamed.
The pro-Russians “provided materials” and “offered access to the [crash] site and a warehouse full of the additional parts of the plane, of very little of that was of interest to the safety board.”
All 283 passengers and 15 crew on board lost their lives after the Malaysian Boeing 777-200ER airliner crashed near Torez in Donetsk.
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