THE HAGUE: Three years after Flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over war-torn Ukraine, more than 2,000 relatives gather Monday to unveil a “living memorial” to their loved ones. While most of the victims were Dutch, there were 17 nationalities on board including Australians, Britons, Malaysians and Indonesians. “A tree symbolises ‘hope’ and ‘future’ in many cultures,” the victims families association said in a statement. We don’t want any of the 298 victims to be forgotten,” his father Jan Slok, told the daily AD newspaper. “If you look inside, you can see both yourself and the name of your loved one,” Westerhuis told Trouw.

Source: Manila Times July 17, 2017 01:30 UTC