Most people think that inspectors had free access to the site for long enough to pick up not only pieces of bodies but all the pieces of wreckage and get them back to labs for analysis.
That's not the case. Not at all. They barely were able to take pictures of a large portion of the area and search for bodies. They got most of the bodies and body parts, but not all. There was fairly reliable video footage of some of the plane being moved about, and of some of it being hauled away.
Scrap metal is a thriving business in the DNR and LNR. Much of it heads for the Russian border and vanishes. Not just plane bits, but armored vehicle wreckage, trashed manufacturing equipment, etc.
Since the perception is that the investigators got all they needed, there's no problem denying them access to the site. And since Putin continues to play this game of "they're completely independent" with Western acquiescence and reluctance to just call him a liar, etc., it's a hard sell. The media are afraid to create something that would destroy the blessed state of peace at all costs, even if the cost is other people.
Worse than Chamberlain. It's as though Hitler conquered much of Europe then asked for a ceasefire to "freeze" the conflict, with the exception that he'd continue to bomb London during the ceasefire. We'd be tickled pink to have achieved peace--until the genocide was publicized, but then the Holocaust deniers would probably take center stage because we'd need to believe them to feel good about ourselves.
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