Mierlo: Vandals deface British WW2 graves in Netherlands
13 September 2019
Vandals have spray-painted graffiti including a big swastika at a British and Commonwealth World War Two cemetery in the Netherlands.
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The Mierlo cemetery is the final resting place of 664 British and Commonwealth soldiers and one Dutch soldier.
The graffiti included "MH17 lie" - a provocative reference to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, which killed 298 people, of whom 193 were Dutch.
International investigators concluded that the jet was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile, fired from an area held by Russian-backed separatists.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49694653
That MH17 flight was Netherlands to Malaysia...what do the Brits have to do with it? This seems real silly, it also would seem to point towards Putin-backer types. I'll bet our cemeteries have more security over there. Puzzling incident.
