Becoming a Festival of the Macabre

A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy ev... A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory — a charge the rebels denied. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) MORE LESS
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Separatist rebels this morning ordered recovery workers at gunpoint to hand over the bodies of the dead from the Malaysian jetliner, and packed them on a train headed for parts unknown.

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