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Jul 21, 2014 at 08:41am IST

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Torez: Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200
bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner
into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in
eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash
scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777,
drawing condemnation from Western leaders
that the rebels were tampering with the site.
The United States, meanwhile, presented
what it called "powerful" evidence that the
rebels shot down the plane with a Russian
surface-to-air missile and training. Although
other governments have stopped short of
accusing Russia of actually causing the crash,
the US was ahead of most in pointing blame
on Moscow for the downing of Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 people
aboard.
"Russia is supporting these separatists.
Russia is arming these separatists. Russia is
training these separatists," Secretary of
State John Kerry said on CNN's "State of the
Union."
Leaders of Britain, France, Germany and
Australia spoke to Russian President Vladimir
Putin by phone late Sunday, urging him to
use his influence on the separatists to ensure
the victims could be repatriated and
international investigators could have full
access to collect evidence. They said
European foreign ministers will be meeting in
Brussels Tuesday to consider further
sanctions on Russia.
More than three days after the jetliner
crashed, international investigators still had
only limited access to the sprawling fields
where the plane fell.
UN Security Council diplomats tweeted
Sunday that the council would vote on
Monday afternoon on a draft resolution co-
sponsored by Australia, France and Lithuania
that would call for full access to the crash
site and an independent investigation.
"Investigators must have immediate full
access to MH17 crash site, & bodies treated
with dignity," British Ambassador Mark Lyall
Grant tweeted.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a
blistering opinion piece for the Sunday Times,
said "the growing weight of evidence"
suggests the rebels shot down the plane, and
if that is so, "this is a direct result of Russia
destabilizing a sovereign state, violating its
territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias
and training and arming them."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose
country lost 28 citizens in the tragedy, said
Putin "said all the right things" during their
telephone conversation about ensuring an
international investigation into the disaster.
"I'm now going to try to ensure that as far
as Australia humanly can, we insist upon
these things happening," Abbott told Sydney
Radio 2GB on Monday. "The site is being
treated more like a garden clean-up than a
forensic investigation, and this is completely
unacceptable."
Russian officials have blamed Ukraine's
government for creating the situation and
atmosphere in which the plane was downed,
but has yet to directly address the
allegations that the separatists were
responsible or were operating with technical
assistance from Moscow.
The 109-square-kilometer (42-square-mile)
crash site, spread out on farmland and
villages, looked dramatically different
Sunday, a day after armed rebels had stood
guard while dozens of bodies lay in the
summer heat. The rebels were gone, and 192
bodies were loaded into the refrigerated train
cars in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15
kilometers (nine miles) away.
The Ukrainian government said in a
statement on its website that a second train
with four refrigerator cars had arrived at
Torez station.
Emergency workers, who the rebels have
allowed to operate under their control, were
searching the sprawling fields. Cranes moved
pieces of the plane around, apparently to
look for more bodies underneath.
By Sunday night, Ukraine's emergency
services agency said the total number of
bodies found was 251, with dozens of body
parts. Kerry expressed outrage at the
"grotesque" behavior of the rebels at the
crash scene.
"Drunken separatists are stacking bodies into
the back of trucks, removing materials from
the site," he told ABC's "This Week." ''On
Friday, we had 75 minutes of access to the
site; on Saturday, three hours of access. This
is an insult to everybody.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose
country lost 192 citizens on the plane, told a
news conference that repatriating the bodies
was his "No. 1 priority."
He said all efforts were aimed at getting the
train with the bodies to "territory controlled
by Ukraine," adding that a Dutch military
plane was being sent to Kharkiv to set up a
coordination center.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, said reports from the group's
investigators in Ukraine suggest some bodies
were incinerated without a trace.
"We're looking at the field where the engines
have come down. This was the area which
was exposed to the most intense heat. We do
not see any bodies here. It appears that
some have been vaporized," he said from the
crash site.
Rebel leader Alexander Borodai denied the
rebels were trying to tamper with evidence,
saying the bodies would be turned over to a
team of Malaysian experts he was expecting.
A group of investigators that included
Malaysian officials was in Kiev, but said they
wouldn't go into rebel-held areas until they
get better assurances about security. The
Ukrainian government, which has
responsibility for the investigation, has also
asked for help from the International Civil
Aviation Organization - a UN body - and
Eurocontrol, a European air traffic safety
organization.
Borodai insisted the rebels have not
interfered with the investigation, and said he
would turn over the plane's flight data and
cockpit voice recorders, or "black boxes," as
well.
"The bodies will go nowhere until experts
arrive," Borodai said in the rebel-held city of
Donetsk.
But it was clear that the rebels were
interfering in the investigation.
Lyubov Kudryavets, a worker at the Torez
morgue, said that on the evening the plane
went down, a resident brought in the
bloodied body of a child, about 7 or 8 years
old. On Saturday, militiamen came to take
away the body away, she said.
"They began to question me: 'Where are the
fragments of rocket? Where are the
fragments from the plane?'" Kudryavets said.
"But I didn't have any wreckage. ... I swear."
Experts said that that even if investigators
are granted access now, it might be too late.
"Even without any deliberate attempt at a
cover-up, the crash site is already
compromised in forensic terms," said Keir
Giles, an associate fellow at the Chatham
House think tank. "A reconstruction of the
aircraft fuselage and wings would give a
picture on how the missile struck and what
kind it was. If any aircraft parts have already
been removed ... this compromises the
objectivity of the investigation."
On the diplomatic front, Western leaders
stepped up the pressure on Putin. The
leaders of France, Germany and Britain
issued a joint statement demanding that he
force the separatists to "finally allow
rescuers and investigators to have free and
total access to the zone."
Rutte said that the Dutch foreign minister
was headed to the U.N. to lobby "to further
expand the international coalition pushing for
quick recovery of the bodies and getting to
the bottom of the terrible events on MH17."
In the Netherlands, worshippers at church
services prayed for the victims, as anger grew
over the rebels' hindering of the
investigation.
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son, Bryce,
and his girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers, were among
those killed, said she was appalled their
bodies weren't being handed over.
"Mr. Putin, send my children home," she said,
speaking on Sky TV from Amsterdam's
Schiphol Airport. "Send them home. Please."