The stench of death is thick in the
air as onlookers peer inside a freight train containing the bodies of some 200
victims of the MH17 massacre.
The scene, a grim echo of the mechanized
slaughter of millions in the Second World War, has been created by Russian
separatists who have collected piles of corpses from the plane crash and put
them in refrigerated rail carriages.
There was international outrage over
the undignified scene last night – with swarms of flies buzzing around the
train – although defiant local militia men insisted they were doing what they
could for the dead.