MH17 convictions pave the way for war crime prosecutions from Ukrainian invasion
- Written by Lauren Sanders, Senior Research Fellow on Law and the Future of War, The University of Queensland
Remko de Waal/EPA/AAPOn November 17 2022, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of murder in relation to the downing of flight MH17 by a Buk-TELAR surface-to-air missile in 2014 over rebel-held territory in Ukraine.
This conviction is the first concluded legal action in relation to the incident. It is...
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