The Weekend Intelligence: MH17 and the battle for truth
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The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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For almost a decade The Economist’s Noah Sneider has been following the story of MH17, the passenger plane shot down over Eastern Ukraine on July 17th 2014. All 298 people on board died. No group, or country, has ever admitted responsibility, leaving the victim's families searching for answers. In this episode Noah, who was at the scene of the crash that day, reports on the ten year battle for justice.
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| 0:55.0 | Justice really only works in a system where people, political parties and leaders play by the rules. |
| 1:05.0 | When the system works, crime, ideally, is followed by punishment. |
| 1:12.2 | But what happens when the system is challenged? When order is replaced first by |
| 1:17.6 | disorder and chaos, then by lies, and then war. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm Ora Ogunbi and you're listening to the weekend intelligence. |
| 1:31.7 | In this episode a tale about to the weekend intelligence. |
| 1:32.6 | In this episode, a tale about a nation's search |
| 1:36.1 | for answers and justice. |
| 1:39.8 | For nearly 10 years, the economist Noah Snyder has been following the story of MH17, |
| 1:46.9 | the passenger plane shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 238 people on board died. From the day the plane crashed into the |
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