Why aren't the bodies of MH17 being picked up and preserved???

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42. The initial reason was "it wasn't possible."

No power to the area. Nothing to preserve the bodies in--no refrigerator cars.

Now the lastest story is from the Donets'k official governor Taruta is that the rebels are trying to pick up the bodies and send them to Russia for "objective" analysis. Because all the Westerners are fascists and are trying to frame them. I don't know if Taruta is accurate. He's not on the ground and hardly unbiased.

There's a reason the rebels turn off all the tv stations (and more recently, radio stations) that aren't out of Russia and mostly strongly oriented to the official state version of events. Have closed newspapers and beaten up editors. Dozens of reporters have gone missing for a while-some still aren't found (and these aren't Russian reporters nabbed by the Ukrainians). They've been pressured to "tell the truth", to give "objective views of the facts". If it's not flattering to them, it's fascist lies and propaganda.

And if there's one word I refuse to translate from Russian, it's "objective." Because when that word is used in Russian its meaning is pretty much never "objective." It's a Marxist-Leninist philosophical term and was so warped that it'll never be unscrewed. As far as I can tell, the best translation for ob"ektivnyi is something like "in the view that I'm forced to have", if you're low ranking, and "in the view that I insist others adopt because they serve my purpose", f you're high ranking. Putin's told his forces to produce an "objective" analysis that casts light on what really happened. But what really happened, he'd already said, was that the Ukr government was responsible.