Ukraine Show of Shame; UKRAINE PARLIAMENT ERUPTS INTO MASS BRAWL AS NATIONALISTS AND SEPARATISTS TRADE BLOWS ON THE FLOOR
No wonder! Nigerian Representatives
at both the Federal and National level has counterpart in mass brawl. As Ukraine's
parliament erupted into a brawl yesterday after a decision to send more reserve
soldiers to battle separatists near the Russian border was approved.
Nationalist and
pro-Russian lawmakers were seen swinging at, and wrestling one another, in
scenes more fitting of a bar room brawl than a debating chamber.
Members of the
nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party and politicians from the Party of Regions
clashed after 232 deputies voted in favour of the decision - an extension
of an earlier plan that had expired.
Fighting continues in
the separatist-controlled Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. In the nearby
Lukansk region, the national military has reportedly made some gains
against pro-Russian militants, the Moscow Times reported.
This is not the first
time fists have flown in the Ukranian parliament. In April, a fight broke out
after communist leader Petro Symonenko accused nationalists of having
surrendered the country to Russia.
The fights come as
tensions continue over the handling of last Thursday's MH17 crisis which
claimed 298 lives - including 10 Britons.
While the first bodies
of those killed in the crash arrived in the Netherlands today, there was fresh
anguish amongst grieving relatives as it emerged that as many as a third
of the passengers could still be missing.
Yesterday, 200 bodies
were released by the rebels and taken by train to the Ukrainian
government-controlled city of Kharkiv, raising questions about the condition
of the remaining 98. Rebel commanders claimed
the makeshift morgue contained 282 bodies and 87 body parts from an additional
16 people.
This would have accounted for all of the passengers killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile, however, after carrying out a body count last night, Dutch forensic experts found the number to be ‘significantly less’.
The head of the Dutch team leading the investigation, Jain Tuinder, said he estimated just 200 bodies had arrived in Kharkiv as well as a number of unidentified body parts.
Dutch air safety officials leading the investigation into the disaster also said today that they still had not got safe access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine.
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