Unfinished tales: Why people's stories must be told and heard

When innocent people become pawns in a power play, their stories get killed, too. 

I don't know anyone who was on board MH17. I had never met, seen or spoken to any one of the 298 people who lost their lives on that fatal flight. I don’t know where they lived, what they did or what their hopes, aspirations and dreams were. Who their friends were or what their most passionate desires were. Their greatest experiences? We’ll never hear about those now, either. On that fateful Thursday in July, their stories died with them.