Distraught Dutch Mother: Send my children home
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Source: AP
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A distraught, grieving mother summed up a swelling mood of despair and anguish in the Netherlands on Sunday at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son Bryce and his girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers, were killed when the plane was shot down Thursday over Ukraine, said she was appalled their bodies and those of other victims had been left lying for days.
"I am not a politician," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "But I know for sure that Mr. Putin can do something."
Earlier, at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, she made a simple, but heart-rending appeal to the Russian president: "Mr. Putin, send my children home," she told Sky TV. "Send them home. Please."
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