by John Helmer, Moscow
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The Dutch Government has rigged the trial for Russian murder in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on June 17, 2014. The outcome will be a guilty verdict. For Prime Minister Mark Rutte, this is more easily predicted than his survival in power in six months’ time, when Dutch voters go to the polls on March 17, 2021.
The immediate consequence is that the defence of Russian Army Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Pulatov, the one Russian accused who has responded to the Dutch indictment, is pointless; it should stop at once. The Rotterdam lawyers, Boudwijn van Eijck and Sabine ten Doesschate, who are representing Pulatov in court, should withdraw. If they are reluctant, then Anatoly Kovler and Yelena Kutyina, the Moscow lawyers who arranged their engagement and the money to pay them, should order a walk-out.
The Russian side gains nothing, and loses much, by collaborating in the show trial.
A guilty verdict for Pulatov, and by extension the three other defendants and the Russian government behind them, can’t make a significant difference to the outcome of the Dutch election. The MH17 trial will be continuing that month, if it is running on the timetable already announced. According to that, the verdict cannot be delivered until the very end of 2021 or the first weeks of 2022.
Before the March election day, however, if Pulatov has already abandoned the trial, ordering his lawyers to leave the courtroom, there is a chance that Rutte’s campaign of deceptions will be comprehended by Dutch voters as they go to the ballot box. Just a chance. If then they throw Rutte out, the outcome and verdict of the trial aren’t likely to be directly affected. But Russians will say that Rutte has been felled by the truth.
CONTENTS
| Part One – The dead talk back | ||
| 1 | The case for walking out of the sham trial | 2 |
| 2 | Fate of the cockpit crew | 28 |
| Part Two – Double Dutch | ||
| 3 | First truths, first lies | 103 |
| 4 | Black boxes, black holes in the investigation | 109 |
| 5 | Dutch prepare missile attack on Moscow | 117 |
| 6 | Shrapnel evidence for what cannot have happened | 135 |
| 7 | What President Obama knew and when | 151 |
| 8 | Australian Government secrets | 162 |
| 9 | Ambulance-chasing lawyers try to bluff | 178 |
| 10 | Crash of the Dutch Safety Board | 190 |
| 11 | The Dutch Safety Board footnote which put the boot to Buk | 201 |
| 12 | The war crime of Tjibbe Joustra, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board | 206 |
| 13 | Australian and Dutch officials lose control of the MH17 info-war | 213 |
| 14 | First coroner’s court inquest on the MH17 crash | 219 |
| 15 | The little Dutch boy, his finger, and the leak in the dyke story | 229 |
| 16 | US lawyer attacks Malaysia, Russia, for billion-dollar payoff | 233 |
| 17 | Dutch prosecutor Westerbeke expresses doubt on MH17 evidence | 247 |
| 18 | The Dutch and Australian plan to invade eastern Ukraine | 255 |
| 19 | Dutch, Australian, Ukrainian police announce end of tunnel; Russian generals announce tunnel vision | 264 |
| 20 | Proof the Dutch police, Ukrainian secret service and US Government are faking evidence of the shoot-down | 277 |
| 21 | Australian Prime Minister contradicts Ukrainian court claim of MH17 terrorism | 287 |
| Part Three – The standard of proof | ||
| 22 | One thousand days of faking | 297 |
| 23 | American lawyers try selling Sberbank lawsuit to MH17 victims | 348 |
| 24 | The MH17 missile goes home to Ukraine | 355 |
| 25 | What the Lockerbie files reveal about the MH17 lies | 361 |
| 26 | Malaysian Prime Minister accuses US and allies of fabrication | 368 |
| 27 | Dutch prosecutors announce criminal charges | 373 |
| 28 | Malaysia reveals evidence tampering by Dutch; FBI attempts to seize black boxes | 384 |
| 29 | New evidence leaks from secret JIT files | 397 |
| 30 | NATO military intelligence repeatedly reported no evidence of a Russian Buk in Donbass | 412 |
| 31 | No US satellite evidence of the shoot-down by a Buk missile | 417 |
| 32 | Five Dutch methods for witness tampering | 429 |
| Part Four – The trial | ||
| 33 | Judge Steenhuis opens the show | 438 |
| 34 | The face of Dutch justice launches a thousand slips | 446 |
| 35 | The defence opens its case | 465 |
| 36 | The judge orders prosecution to produce US satellite data | 471 |
| 37 | Anglo-American standard or Dutch treat | 479 |
| 38 | US satellite evidence – now you see it, now you don’t | 488 |
| 39 | The false front of the defence lawyers | 499 |
| 40 | Judge Steenhuis allows secret witness testimony from the SBU | 512 |
| 41 | Steenhuis allows US satellite evidence fabrication | 521 |
| 42 | Russia and China did not hand over satellite evidence | 526 |
| 43 | SBU telephone tapes, witness tampering, hatred for Russians | 533 |
| 44 | Trial outcome rigged on a charge requiring no proof | 542 |
| 45 | The strawman defence | 551 |
| 46 | Defence calls for Russian Army general Konashenkov to testify | 558 |
| 47 | Prosecutors oppose Konashenkov testimony | 567 |
| 48 | Steenhuis refuses to allow Konashenkov evidence | 576 |
| 49 | Dutch writing on Ukrainian wall – guilty verdict inevitable | 580 |
| 50 | Prime Minister Rutte loses confidence in trial | 589 |
| Part Five – Burned out case | ||
| 51 | End of the deceit | 599 |
Afterword: the Battle of the Southern Cauldron, July 1 – July 17, 2014
Back cover of the book: the sphinx and swords logo of the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD, together with its motto. The MIVD’s detection of the truth contradicts the Dutch prosecution charge that a Russian-directed firing of a Buk missile downed MH17.
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