Security Council Has Failed to Set Up an International Tribunal for the Downed Malaysian Airplane Flight MH17

On July 29, 2015, the UN Security Council voted on a draft resolution submitted by Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine. The resolution would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner (Flight MH17) in eastern Ukraine. All 298 passengers and crew on board Flight MH17 – the majority of them Dutch – died when the plane was shot down on July 17, 2014.