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Rebels to 'guarantee safety' of crash site monitors if Kiev agrees truce
2014-07-21
[Al Ahram] A top Ukrainian rebel leader said on Sunday that the pro-Russian fighters will guarantee the safety of international monitors at the Malaysian jet's crash site if Kiev agrees to a truce.
Translation: the Russians militants have removed the black boxes, stashed the bodies, found all the pieces of the missile they could find, and have cleaned up the site. They've likely planted evidence to implicate the Ukrainians. It's now okay to let the international monitors in to do "their job"...
"We declare that we will guarantee the safety of international experts on the scene as soon as Kiev concludes a ceasefire agreement," the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's deputy premier Andrei Purgin said in a statement.

He urged Kiev to "immediately conclude such an agreement" with the rebels.

Failure to do so would give the impression that the government is made up of "dangerous lunatics, bloodthirsty maniacs (who are) dangerous not only for the residents of Donbass but also for the world community", Purgin warned.

Purgin's statement came as the international community piled pressure on Russia to get the Moscow-backed rebels to grant Sherlocks full access to the crash site of the Malaysian MH17 jet.
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