'Hunt them down': MH17 families hope for justice

Relatives attend a commemoration at the National Monument MH17 in Park Vijfhuizen near Amsterdam on July 17, 2022. - AFP

VLUTEN, Netherlands, Nov 13, 2022 (AFP): Each night before bedtime in the small Dutch town of Vleuten, Evert van Zijtveld lights two candles at a concrete shrine next to his front door to remember his murdered children.

Eight years and four months ago his daughter Frederique, 19, and son Robert-Jan, 18, died with 296 others when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot from the sky over war-torn Ukraine.